Daesh Withholding Water from 30 Districts in Eastern Mosul
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group has cut water supplies in eastern Mosul, depriving 30 districts of drinking water, an Iraqi official said.
Hossam al-Abbar, a member of Nineveh province council, said on Tuesday that water plants feeding eastern and western Mosul were still under Daesh control, adding that people in 30 neighborhoods are without water now.
“There are ten other districts where the water supply continues, but intermittently,” Abbar added, Iraqi News website reported.
He urged the government to disburse the province’s budget so as to run potable water tanks.
On October 16, 2016, the Iraqi army backed by Federal Police and Hashd al-Shaabi launched a massive operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold of the Takfiri militants of Daesh in the Arab country.
In recent years, Iraq has been facing the threat of terrorism, mainly posed by the Daesh terrorist group.
Daesh militants made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over the summer of 2014, after capturing large swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, blunted the edge of Daesh offensive and later forced the Takfiri group to withdraw from most of the areas it had occupied.
