Angelina Jolie visited Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday, June 16, with the United Nations Refugee Agency
amid her new custody arrangement with estranged husband Brad Pitt.
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The 43-year-old was in the war-torn city to raise awareness of the
residents’ conditions one-year after their liberation from Isis.
“This is the worst devastation I have seen in all my years working with UNHCR.
People here have lost everything: their homes are destroyed,
” Jolie said on Saturday, according to UNHCR’s website. “They are destitute.
They have no medicine for their children, and many have no running water or basic services.
They are still surrounded by bodies in the rubble. After the unimaginable
trauma of the occupation, they are now trying to rebuild their homes,
often with little or no assistance.”
The actress and activist’s mission comes just four days after Us Weekly
confirmed Jolie and Pitt, 54, reached a new temporary
custody agreement over their six children for the summer.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County resolved that “not having a relationship with their father”
would be “harmful” to Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12,
and twins Knox and Vivienne, 9, according to court documents obtained by Us.
court added that the children “are safe with their father” and
declared it is “critical that each of them have a healthy and strong relationship”
with both their mother and father.
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