At least for the civilians. Relief agencies are calling the assault on Fallujah a big disaster.

“There’s no water. People are drinking dirty water. Children are dying. People are eating flour because there’s no proper food,” he told aid workers in Habbaniya, which has become a refugee camp, with around 2,000 families sheltering there.

This report from a BBC reporter confirms that conditions in the city are deadly and many civilians are dying.

It is hard to know how much people outside Falluja are aware of what is going on here.

I want them to know about conditions inside this city – there are dead women and children lying on the streets.

People are getting weaker from hunger. Many are dying from their injuries because there is no medical help left in the city whatsoever.

Some families have started burying their dead in their gardens.