Hallelujah for Fallujah?

'Living within the city under the terror group's authority has become unbearable.'

Fallujah, Iraq has been taken by ISIS militants and used as human shields. Those who try to escape are burned to death in public executions and Fallujah's citizens cry for rescue or a swift death as an alternative to slowly starving to death at the extremist's hands.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to Daily Mail, Fallujah is almost entirely isolated from other ISIS-controlled territories, leading to an extreme shortage of supplies.

Internal tensions have been mounting as the food and medicine supplies continue to dwindle. One woman reached the Al Arabiya News Channel and explained, "People are dying because of hunger, there is no medicine, no food, we have no more options left."

She cried into the camera: "Save us from Islamic State or bomb us with chemical weapons so we will immediately die and not have a slow, agonising death. Allah is my refuge."

The woman was later abducted by ISIS and her fate remains unknown.

According to the Kurdish news agency ARA, Azal Obaid, of the Anbar Provincial Council, reported 15 people were burned to death after they heard her cry to the West and they attempted to escape.

Once source claimed, "Living within the city under the terror group's authority has become unbearable. Fallujah has been under suffocating blockade for several months.

"People endure severe shortage of basic materials, amid deteriorating living conditions" and ISIS protects "its own militants inside the city of Fallujah" by using civilians as human shields.

Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal described how Iraqi security forces killed 150 IS fighters near Fallujah.

ISIS used car bombs and machine guns out the outskirts of Fallujah but were overtaken by Iraqi forces, who lost four soldiers.

Though 150 militants are believed to be dead, U.S. forces were unable to confirm that number.

As the war continues, Fallujah's citizens continue to suffer at the hands of their captors. Earlier last month four children were reported to have succumbed to starvation within the city as the paltry food sources have come up empty.

Please pray for the persecuted victims of ISIS domination, particularly in areas humanitarian aid is unable to reach.

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