Refugees

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Returning Iraqi families find homes erased as cross-border resettlement strains aid system

Twelve days after the ceasefire took hold, returning Iraqi and Iranian families are confronting flattened neighborhoods and overwhelmed aid corridors, as UN agencies warn that the post-war humanitarian bill is rising faster than donor pledges.

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Unexploded ordnance deaths mount along Iran-Iraq return corridors as clearance teams race to keep pace

At least 47 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded by unexploded ordnance since the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect April 15, the U.N. Mine Action Service said Friday, as the pace of refugee returns continued to outrun clearance crews along the Iran-Iraq border belt.

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Hodeidah Port Reopens to Aid as Yemen Recovery Eclipses Iran-Iraq Returns in Scale

The first relief vessel cleared Hodeidah's outer roadstead Tuesday morning as the U.N. confirmed Yemen's coastal displacement now rivals the entire Iran-Iraq corridor in scale, six weeks after strikes hollowed out a logistics network that took years to build.

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First Refugee Returns Begin as Ceasefire Holds, but Aid Groups Warn of Uncertain Conditions

Three days after the ceasefire took effect, the first organized convoys of displaced families began moving back toward Iranian border provinces and southern Iraq, even as aid agencies cautioned that returns were running ahead of conditions on the ground.

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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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Aid Convoys Roll as Ceasefire Opens Corridors Into Southern Lebanon and Anbar

The first U.N.-coordinated aid convoys crossed into southern Lebanon and western Iraq within hours of the Iran ceasefire taking effect Wednesday, as agencies raced to stabilize more than four million displaced people and to assess return corridors that have been closed for weeks.

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Aid Convoys Stage at Borders as Agencies Race to Pre-Position Relief for Ceasefire Window

Hundreds of aid trucks idled at crossings into Iran, Iraq and southern Lebanon on Tuesday as international agencies raced to pre-position supplies for the first hours after the Islamabad ceasefire takes effect at midnight Wednesday.

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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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'An Entire School Year Lost': Displaced Children from Iran War Strain Host Systems from Amman to Erbil

More than 410,000 school-age children have been pulled out of classrooms across five countries since the Iran war began, UNICEF said Friday, warning that improvised arrangements in host communities were already buckling under the load.

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At Tamarchin, family separations shadow a quieter Iranian exit into Iraqi Kurdistan

A UNHCR field assessment released Thursday found that roughly one in nine Iranian families reaching the Tamarchin crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan had arrived without at least one member, exposing a quieter but harder displacement channel than the well-documented Turkish route.

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Bazargan crossing swells as Iranian families seek refuge in eastern Turkey

Turkey said Tuesday that nearly 38,000 Iranians had entered through the Bazargan border post since the war began, with eastern provinces opening overflow shelters as medical evacuees and pensioners arrive alongside families from the industrial belt.

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German Coalition Frays Over Iran War Response as Bundestag Returns From Easter Recess

Germany's governing coalition entered an open dispute on Monday over Berlin's response to the Iran war, with the Social Democrats demanding a cap on military assistance to Israel and a sharp expansion of refugee admissions as the Bundestag returned from its Easter recess.

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Geneva pledging conference falls short as donors commit $820 million against $1.4 billion war appeal

Donor governments meeting in Geneva on Monday pledged $820 million against a $1.4 billion UN appeal for civilians displaced by the Iran war, leaving a 41 percent shortfall that aid chiefs warned would force rationing across four countries within ten days.

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Children Bear Hidden Cost of Iran War, UNICEF Warns as Displaced Camps Shutter Schools

More than 410,000 children across Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen have been pulled out of school by the war, UNICEF said Sunday, and aid workers warned malnutrition screening rates were collapsing inside the largest camps.

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Displacement Surges Along Iran-Iraq Border as Strikes Enter Second Month

Aid agencies estimated more than 480,000 people have been displaced inside Iran and along the Iraqi border since strikes began a month ago, with shelter capacity in three provinces already exceeded.

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Yemen civilians bear brunt as strikes on Houthi-held areas cut water and power

Aid agencies warned Tuesday that the opening of a Yemeni front in the Iran war has knocked out water and grid power for more than 1.6 million people in Houthi-held areas, with cholera surveillance teams already reporting suspect cases in Hodeidah.

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UN warns Lebanon, Jordan refugee systems near collapse as strikes widen

UNHCR and WHO issued a joint appeal Monday for $1.4 billion in emergency funding, warning that Lebanese and Jordanian aid systems are buckling under a new wave of displacement from southern Lebanon and western Iraq.

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Iraqi Civilians Flee Anbar and Erbil as Strikes Near U.S. Bases Intensify

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians fled Anbar and Erbil over the weekend as strikes near U.S. bases intensified, prompting U.N. agencies to track a sharp rise in displacement and Baghdad to appeal for humanitarian corridors.

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