The aid group Oxfam is warning that about eight million Iraqis–nearly a third of the population–need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war. The report said 15 percent of Iraqis cannot regularly afford to eat. Seventy percent are without adequate water supplies. And over a quarter of all children are malnourished. Jeremy Hobbs of Oxfam said: “Basic services, ruined by years of war and sanctions, cannot meet the needs of the Iraqi people.” Last week Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, admitted that Baghdad residents can now only count on an hour or two of electricity a day. That’s the lowest level since the U.S. invasion. Before the war, Baghdad residents received 16 to 24 average hours of electricity each day.