Australia has renewed a $110-million aid deal with the International Red Cross, as the organisation revealed more disturbing details on the conflicts in the Middle East.
Its new report found deaths in Iraq, Syria and Yemen accounted for almost half of all the total fatalities in the world's conflicts.
Titled 'I Saw My City Die,' the new report from the International Committee of the Red Cross focused on global conflicts between 2010 and 2015.
It showed, that in the last three years, 70 per cent of all civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria took place in cities.
Director General Yves Daccord says there are 80 conflicts currently raging in around 40 nations.
He's seeking more Australian support to assist those affected, and has met with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
"We need to learn from the past, and we see that we are dealing with really protracted crises which impact people over time. And we really expect Australia to commit and to continue to push humanitarian law related issues. I think the commitment of Australia is high, and we want to make sure that we have a good understanding of how we'll implement this commitment over time."
Australia has renewed a funding deal with the ICRC, worth $110-million over four years.
Mr Daccord says it will assist civilians who fled war zones, and those who stayed.
"So if we want them to be able to survive in Syria and Yemen, we need to do humanitarian actions, classical. But also at the same time, try to make sure that water, sanitation systems, health system, can continue to function. When you are trying to reconstruct, it's not just about reconstructing building or infrastructure. It's about reconstructing society, and really thinking about how the social fabric of a society is living."
The ICRC report found that each year between 2010 and 2015, roughly 90-thousand civilians were killed in war.
The most deadly conflicts were in the Middle East, with nearly half of all deaths in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Red Cross Operations Director for the Middle East, Robert Mardini, says in the same period, 17 million people from those three countries also became refugees.
"The vast majority of them died in conflict taking place in cities and urban centres. And at the same time you have millions of people who were driven out of their homes, who had to flee, leaving everything behind."
The Syrian war has claimed 400,000 lives in just seven years.
Civilians who stayed say they are reliving the trauma on a daily basis.
"My son died here in the rubble. Two floors collapsed on him. He suffocated. He was a good man, God bless him, a hard worker, generous and respectful."
In two years, Yemen's civil war has caused 10,000 civilian deaths.
Iraq too has been devastated.
Like Syria and Yemen, many Iraqi hospitals have been bombed, and its cities pulvarised.
The general hospital in the former I-S strong hold of Mosul is an exception.
Doctor Julia Schurch says it remains standing, a mere kilometre from the frontline.
"All the traumas we see, more than 90 per cent, are directly war wounded traumas. Gunshots and shell injuries, which means from blasts, bombs. Here it is really a very high number of war wounded cases, from very small superficial lesions from flying elements to deadly injuries."
With a humanitarian crisis unprecedented since World War two, the Red Cross says international assistance is imperative.
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