Displacement

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First Returns Begin Along Iran-Iraq Corridors as Aid Agencies Warn Against Rushed Repatriation

The first organized convoys of displaced families began rolling east from Iraqi Kurdistan toward home on Friday as the Iran-Israel ceasefire entered its third day, but UN agencies cautioned that the trickle of returns risked outpacing the unexploded-ordnance surveys and medical assessments needed to make villages habitable again.

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Mental Health Emergency Deepens Across Displacement Camps as Civilians Count Down Anxious Hours to Iran Ceasefire

Aid agencies warned Monday that the 72-hour gap between the Islamabad ceasefire announcement and its scheduled Wednesday start was producing a sharp spike in acute anxiety and trauma cases across displacement sites, with last-minute strikes shaking civilians who had begun, briefly, to hope.

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Ceasefire News Meets Displaced Families With Cautious Relief and Deep Uncertainty

Word of the Islamabad ceasefire reached displacement camps from Erbil to the Bekaa within minutes Sunday, but aid workers said relief among the more than four million people uprooted by six weeks of war was tempered by fear of a fragile pause and a long road home.

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Cholera and Displacement Compound in Yemen as Houthi-Front Strikes Push Hodeidah to the Edge

A cholera outbreak that resurfaced in February has accelerated through camps around Hodeidah as U.S. and Saudi strikes on Houthi launch sites drive a second wave of displacement, with aid agencies warning that water systems are days from failure.

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Iranian cities empty as strikes on industrial belts drive internal displacement

Iranian Red Crescent figures released Thursday put internal displacement at roughly 1.1 million people, with neighborhoods around Isfahan and Bushehr emptying as Israeli strikes on nuclear-adjacent industrial sites continue.

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