http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55321BD7-F45A-41AB-987B-7DA96B9D7D3A.htm Relief agencies which finally reached Falluja found a city in ruins and its remaining civilian population beleaguered and hungry.
For the first time since a massive US-led assault was launched against the city, Red Crescent aid has just reached those Iraqis who were unable to escape in the weeks leading up to the offensive and who were trapped in their homes.
The Red Crescent's Falluja coordinator, Jotiar Nafaa, estimates that between 150 and 175 families are left in the city that once had a population of 300,000.
Most residents fled to Baghdad or the surrounding countryside as the showdown between armed fighters and US-led forces built towards its inevitable eruption.
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