UN: 60,000 being displaced monthly as refugee population climbs to 4.2 million

A Palestinian child whose family was forced to flee Baghdad to a camp near the Syrian border in Anbar province.

More than four million Iraqis have fled their homes because of sectarian violence, the largest population movement in the Middle East since Palestinians left the new state of Israel, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

"An estimated 4.2 million Iraqis have been uprooted from their homes, with the monthly rate of displacement climbing to over 60,000 people compared to 50,000 previously," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told journalists.

More than two million Iraqis are displaced within their own country, with around half being uprooted following the February 2006 Samarra bombings, seen as the catalyst for the latest wave of sectarian conflict, the UNHCR said.

"Many are barely surviving in makeshift camps, inaccessible to aid workers for security reasons," Pagonis warned.

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