Iraqi families to leave Syria’s Hawl Camp

HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The management of Hawl Camp in northeast Syria prepares to send a number of Iraqi refugees back to their country, a source said on Friday.  

An exclusive source from the camp told North Press that a new batch of Iraqi families are preparing to leave for Iraq within a week.

Iraqis comprise half of the 50,000 people who reside in Hawl Camp.

The families are going to be placed in al-Jadaa camp in the south of Mosul in Nineveh Governorate, northwestern Iraq, the source added.

According to the source, about 150 families are going to leave the camp.

By Eva Amin