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 (ICRC) 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 said there were 80 conflicts currently raging in around 40 nations, and is seeking more Australian support to assist those affected.
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"We need to learn from the past, and we see that we are dealing with really protracted crises which impact people over time," he said. "We really expect Australia to commit and to continue to push humanitarian law related issues."
Mr Daccord, who met with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, said the commitment of Australia is high.
"We want to make sure that we have a good understanding of how we'll implement this commitment over time," he said.
Mr Daccord said Australia's renewed deal with the ICRC is worth $110 million over four years, and will assist civilians who fled war zones, and those who chose to stay.
"So if we want them to be able to survive in Syria and Yemen, we need to do humanitarian actions," he said.
"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."
Tens of thousands killed by war
The ICRC report found each year between 2010 and 2015 roughly 90,000 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 said 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," he said. "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, and civilians who stayed said they were reliving the trauma on a daily basis.
In two years Yemen's civil war has caused 10,000 civilian deaths, and like Syria and Yemen, many Iraqi cities have been bombed repeatedly.
The general hospital in the former IS strong hold of Mosul is an exception.
Doctor Julia Schurch said it was still standing around a 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," she said. "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 the Second World War, the Red Cross said international assistance remained imperative.
