Thousands of civilians from different villages who fled Daesh oppression and terror have found a safe haven in a camp some 25 kilometers away from Mosul. Still, they do not predict it will be easy for them to get used to a refugee life.An extensive operation was launched on Oct. 17 to retake the Daesh-held city. The offensive has so far displaced more than 10,000 people. These internally displaced people (IDPs) have either fled to safe cities or sought a safe haven in camps.The al-Khazer camp, which has a capacity of 60,000 people, welcomed its first IDPs on Wednesday.Over 1,000 people were taken to the Al-Khazer camp. Families were placed in tents in which up to 10 people can take shelter.Thirty-five year-old Nasrat Ramazan had to save his three children and flee his village."We were only seven to eight kilometers away from Mosul. The clashes were quite intense. We were terrified. I was scared for my kids' lives," Ramazan remembered.The families were given basic humanitarian aid on the first day of their stay in the camp.Aid workers distributed food, water, beds, dolls and medical needs.Most IDPs taking shelter in the Al-Khazer camp came from the Tob Zawa village. Tob Zawa, a small village north of Mosul, was seized by Daesh militants more than two years ago. Similar to villages and towns in Syria and Iraq, life in Tob Zawa was too difficult to endure for the locals after Daesh imposed unbearable rules.It was painful for 65-year-old Zeki Ali to leave his hometown, a place he has never left before in his life. "We had to. I said I would live in a tent rather than be a human shield for Daesh," he asserted. Ali said he thought it would be the best for his children and grandchildren to be away "as much as possible from Daesh and clashes in the Mosul operation."Authorities in the camp said even though the camp has a capacity of around 60,000 people, it will not be enough to accommodate more once Mosul has been encircled.Over 1 million people currently reside in Mosul. Experts predict that hundreds of thousands of people will seek ways to flee the city.Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army are approaching Mosul on multiple fronts, and it is predicted that the fighters will be knocking on Daesh's door in Mosul in a month. The inefficiencies happening now casts doubt upon the future of civilians as a bloody war draws near.Meanwhile, trucks carrying 527 tons of humanitarian aid from Turkey, which was dispatched to Iraq, arrived in the city of Irbil on Monday. "Mosul is your home too," a campaign, organized by the Turkish Red Crescent and Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), saw the delivery of the 527 tons of humanitarian aid by trucks from the Turkish capital of Ankara last week.The aid will be stored in warehouses designated to store needed items for the displaced who will be settled in a tent camp in Irbil.The large presence of Shiite militias within the Iraqi army is also a topic of concern for innocent civilians in Mosul. As the city is predominantly Sunni Arab, Shiite militias such as Hashd al-Shaabi could hurt civilians as part of a sectarian policy it follows.On Wednesday, hundreds of Hasd al-Shaabi militants drove toward villages near Mosul in a convoy from the town of Bartilla. The militants were seen waving Shiite banners.