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HORROR Destruction in Mosul BRITAIN is sending £40million of aid to help the people of Mosul rebuild their lives after victory against Islamic State was declared.
Funds from the UK government will provide vital items including clean drinking water, food, tents, cooking equipment, soap, and jabs against deadly diseases.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel yesterday said Britain will also give extra cash to a UN scheme that has already helped 200,000 Iraqis return to Mosul.
The move follows the declaration of the city’s liberation after three years of fighting and oppression by IS, also known as Daesh, including savage executions, abductions and forced marriages.
Ms Patel, delivering an urgent statement in the Commons on the humanitarian situation in Mosul, said: “This funding will help to ensure that the displaced communities, the displaced people, will receive the much-needed shelter, food and medical support and will provide protection services for the most vulnerable, including minorities, and women and girls.”
To date UK support has delivered shelter kits and household items to 74,000 people, and healthcare to more than 115,000 people.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has buried a report expected to show that Saudi Arabia funds extremism in Britain. She refused to publish the long-awaited paper on national security grounds, instead putting out a 550-word summary which did not even mention Saudi.