The Muslim relief agency said it fears civilians are dying of starvation and a lack of medical equipment. Of the city's 300,000 residents, as many as one-third were thought to have remained when the assault began.
"They are still in the hospital and they are trying to have the facility to distribute material in Fallujah but until now they have not been able to," said Ahmed Nasser, the head of the Red Crescent's disaster management unit.
"They insist that they will stay there until [they are granted permission]," he said. "We hope that we can do this job."
Meanwhile, with the insurgents growing bolder by the day in Mosul, 370km north of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Iraqi security forces would move on the city of over a million people soon.
"We will be moving in the next day or so in Mosul to restore the rule of law," he said on Saturday, without elaborating.
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