(10 Nov 2016) Families with young children are among those struggling to cope after being displaced by the Iraqi effort to retake the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State group (IS) militants.
Hussam Abdelrahman, from Gogjali, now lives in a tent with his wife, Shaima, and three sons.
Last week, Iraqi forces entered Gogjali, which is inside Mosul's city limits but just outside more urban districts.
The family left amid the turmoil, walking for hours before being picked up by the Iraqi Army and brought to Hassan Sham.
Abdelrahman is himself a former army officer, who was forced into retirement by the occupying IS militants.
For two years he did not have a salary.
Abdelrahman says he could not even buy diapers for his 18-month-old baby - a baby who knows no life other than one under IS rule.
His oldest son, Omer, is six-years-old, and has never been to school.
Abdelrahman refused to enrol him in school while IS were in charge.
"They don't teach them to read and write. They learn about guns. One shot equals two shots back. One Kalashnikov versus two. One pistol versus two. This is not an education."
Following the widespread displacement of people fleeing IS-held territory near Mosul, UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, estimates that more than 2,500 children are currently living in Hassan Sham camp.
Mosul fell to IS in the summer of 2014, when the group stormed across large swaths of northern and western Iraq and forced millions of civilians to flee.
The takeover plunged Iraq into its most critical political and security crisis since the 2003 US-led campaign against the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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