Also today, people escaped from the terror of Islamic State

Last year, around 1 million Yazidis and Christians were driven out of northern Iraq, as Islamic State rushed across the Nineveh plain - with virtually no resistance from Iraqi government forces. Later, Islamic State faced the Kurdish forces of Kurdistan (in the northeastern part of the country), whom they are now fighting. Currently, fighting is going on between Kurdish forces and Islamic State further south, near the town of Kirkuk. The Kurdish forces often liberate families who have lived under the reign of terror of Islamic State for more than a year. Many of these people are Sunni Muslims, just like Islamic State. In October, Mission East began to provide assistance to the recently displaced, and on November 3rd I visited the small village of Al Mahal, only seven kilometers from the front line. 202 Sunni families had fled there on October 7th of this year. And ten days later, on October 17th, Mission East distributed food, rice and cooking oil, as well as hygiene kits to these families.

Kim Hartzner, MD, Managing Director