(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Nearly a third of the Old City is damaged or destroyed, and a large majority of western Mosul has been reduced to rubble, with bodies still buried underneath."Thousands of Mosul families have been left without a home," The Associated Press reports. "Schools have been leveled, utility grids wrecked, highways pounded into broken dirt roads."As of July, about 90 percent of the 176,000 east Mosul residents who left have since returned — compared to fewer than one tenth of the 730,000 people displaced from the west."Many of the people who have fled have lost everything. They need shelter, food, health care, water, sanitation, and emergency kits," a United Nations representative told UPI. "The levels of trauma we are seeing are some of the highest anywhere. What people have experienced is nearly unimaginable. ... The fighting may be over, but the humanitarian crisis is not."
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