The United Nations refugee agency announced Tuesday that it is arranging its largest humanitarian aid for Iraq as Kurdish, Iraqi and American forces advance in Mosul Dam to break through the Islamic militant stronghold.

Following the crisis in the Middle Eastern country, the U.N. agency plans an aid operation for Iraqi's driven from their homes. The aid is expected to be brought in through air, sea and land.

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In a statement released by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson Adrian Edwards at a news conference in Geneva, he said the plan is to use a Boeing 747's on Wednesday to airlift provisions from Aqaba to Erbil.

After the air operations, a large fleet of trucks from Turkey will be deployed.

During the conference, Edwards said the operation is "one of the biggest humanitarian operations the agency has done in years."

The operation aims to deliver supply like tents and food to over half a million people in Northern Iraq who are crammed in mosques and ruins.

Edwards told reporters that nearly 200,000 people from the Yazidi sect were displaced from their homes and went to Northern Iraq, while around 11,000 made their way to Syria.

The Agency's plans will set-up 8 to 14 camps that can give refuge to about 140,000 Kurds in Erbil and Dohuk.

On Tuesday, the World Food Program (WFP) said it is increasing its food deliveries to cater to more refugees, since the food crisis in Iraq and Syria has been one of the worst since the 1990s.

In WFP's announcement, it said more than half a million people have already been given food by the agency and they're planning to scale it up to more than one million by 2015.

Saudi Arabia donated US$148 million to the agency which helped in putting up "emergency kitchens" is Northern Iraq, which served hot meals to around 173,000 people for about two weeks.

The majority of the people who benefited from the feeding program were Yazidi's.

Saudi Arabia is expected to donate another US$352 million for humanitarian aid to Iraq as part of a US$500 million it promised the United Nations.

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