Ein Issa camp directorate prevents Deir Ez-Zour families from accessing the camp

Staying of the inhabitants in the camp without going out to their towns and cities increases the problem of receiving new emigrants, ” Only few families went out of the camp, this causes our delay to receive new coming families.” Said Jala Al-Ayyaf co-chair of the camp. 

Ein Issa camp directorate (north of Raqqa) prevented the refugees coming from Deir Ez-Zour access the camp who have been sleeping in the out in the open in front of the camp’s gate for three days. 

Those families came from areas that had been controlled by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after defeating IS in Deir Ez-Zour (east of Syria), the comers say that they are afraid of going back to their houses because of the activity of IS cells and because of the lack of services provided by the new administration in the area. 

Ein Issa camp consists of about 13.200 emigrants (2800) families from Deir Ez-Zour, Raqqa and Aleppo countryside. There are also many Iraqi families fled from Mosul as well as some IS families. 

Ali Haj Muhammad (28) from Al-Mayadeen city (east of Deir Ez-Zour) on the Iraqi Syrian border and a father of four children, says that after Syrian government grabbed the city, he stayed for nine months, but bad conditions, high prices and “regime” forcing to pay bribes, pushed him to get out of the city. 

“All of this, pushed me to fled with my family from Al-Mayadeen and go to SDF areas which are better than regime’s.” Haj Ali confirms. 

“I have been here in the open with my family for two days without food and drink waiting for the camp directorate to let us access the camp.” He added. 

Han’a Albo-Ali (23) confirms her husband’s speech showing that the living conditions are difficult, her husband is injured, he cannot work, they don’t have a house or a land to live on. 

Han’a says that she heard from around that the conditions in Ein Issa camp are good, there is everything, so “we call for the camp directorate to allow us to access.” 

The camp is provided with basic living requirements as well as services provided by the camp directorate and Self-Administration in order to relieve the suffering of the emigrants. There are inside the camp many schools for about 4000 students, there is also a bazaar consists of more than 100 shops and a public kitchen cooking food for emigrants for free. 

Staying of the inhabitants in the camp without going out to their towns and cities increases the problem of receiving new emigrants, ” Only few families went out of the camp, this causes our delay to receive new coming families.” Said Jala Al-Ayyaf co-chair of the camp. 

“when a family go out, we place a new one.” Al-Ayyaf added. 

Al-Ayyaf pointed out that emigrants come to Ein Issa camp because it is safer than their liberated villages from IS and its cells as well as the provision of basic services and allowing the emigrants to go out to work outside the camp. 

The lands surrounding Ein Issa camp are private properties, the thing that limits the expansion of the camp or constructing attached sections.