742 civilians were killed by jihadists in Mosul Iraq

According to UN during the nine month military campaign of Islamic State group in the Iraqi city of Mosul, about 742 civilians were executed. The UN accused the jihadists of perpetrating international crimes.

A total of 2,521 civilians were killed, mostly by IS attacks, during the fight between IS and the internationally-backed Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) that ended in July, the UN rights office said in a report.

“Those responsible must answer for their heinous crimes”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said in a statement.

Mosul, Iraq’s second city, was captured by IS in 2014 and became the capital of the group

The rights office said it has documented the records according to the eyewitnesses “mass abductions of civilians, the use of thousands as human shields, the intentional shelling of civilian residences, and indiscriminate targeting of civilians trying to flee the city”.