Five years after President Bush declared the Iraq War “Mission Accomplished,” more than 4.7 million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes –about 15% of Iraq’s population or the populations of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Washington DC combined. Five years later, the humanitarian crisis in Iraq is still one of the most underreported catastrophes of the Iraq war and it’s not getting better.

This is the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since 1948 and was directly caused by the U.S. invasion. Yet, the United States has done little to alleviate this massive humanitarian crisis.  Fewer than 6,000 Iraqis have been resettled in the U.S. since the war began.

Just on Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released a survey of Iraqi refugees in Syria. 95 percent of respondents said they “fled Iraq because of direct threats or general insecurity” and only 4 percent of the respondents had any plans to return home.

An Amnesty International report confirms some of the many difficulties facing Iraq’s internally displaced populations including “shortages of food, clean water, shelter, fuel, electricity and adequate health care.” The report goes on to indict the international community, particularly the leading actors in Iraq such as the U.S. as culpable:

Governments have paid lip-service to the needs of the Iraqi displaced, but real recognition of their responsibility-sharing obligations and on-going commitment to support them has not emerged to anything like the extent necessary to address the crisis. On the contrary, most Western countries continue to keep their doors slammed shut in the face of Iraqi asylum-seekers. These states have failed to recognize the protection needs of Iraqis, cut off their assistance in an attempt to force them to leave and, in some cases, deported them to Iraq.

Five years later, the U.S. owes it to the Iraqis it displaced to help them have a semblance of normalcy again.