About 150 Yazidi families have returned to al-Jazeera village in al-Baaj, west of Mosul, from a displacement camp in Makhmur, Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement said Wednesday (October 24th).
The families returned to their homes after security forces secured the village and removed all explosive remnants of war, and after basic services including water and electricity were restored, the ministry said.
"Security forces safely brought 150 families, a total of 980 people, to their homes in al-Jazeera," the ministry’s advisor in Ninawa province, Wael al-Aidani, told Diyaruna.
"This comes two weeks after another 200 families were brought to the same village where all war remnants were removed and services restored," he added.
Steps are ongoing to rehabilitate towns that witnessed destruction during the rule of the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS), and to return displaced people from camps east and north of Mosul, he said.
