More than 34,000 people displaced in Mosul operation

The United Nations said Tuesday that over 34,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, with about three quarters settled in camps and the rest in host communities.

In a report issued overnight, the U.N. human rights office said the world organization and its humanitarian partners have distributed food, water and medicine to more than 41,000 displaced people and vulnerable residents fleeing the current fighting.

Since the battle for Mosul reached the city itself on Nov. 4, some 11,000 people have fled eastwards from the city, while electricity and water supplies have been cut in some eastern neighborhoods.

"Parts of the resident population could face shortages of food and water," the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, also highlighting an urgent need for trauma care due to a lack of facilities.