800 women and children from Al-Hol camp back to their homes, North and east of Syria administration
800 women and children from Al-Hol camp back to their homes, North and east of Syria administration
Al-Hol camp management in north and east of Syria handed about 800 women and children, most of whom were IS families from Raqqa and Altabqa, to Labor and Social Affairs Board in order to send them back to their homes, following a meeting between Autonomous Administration in North and East of Syria and elders and clans’ sheikhs in Ein Issa (north of Raqqa), in which the latter demand was responded.
Process of the displaced people’s relocation has been done according to lists presented by clans’ sheikhs to Relations Committee in Al-Hol camp.
Autonomous Administration had prepared ten buses for transporting the refugees to their homes as well as 8 trucks for their luggage.
In a press conference before their relocation, Autonomous Administration said that 800 women and children who will be send back to their regions aren’t involved in fighting actions, and are distributed on 217 families.
Farouq Al-Mashi, co-chair of Labor and Social Affairs Board in Autonomous Administration, said to North Press that the process came at the request of clans’ sheikhs in north and east of Syria and it was on their “bail”.
Concerning guarantees that those displaced people will not join again to the organization they had left, Al-Mashi stated that: “We hope that those women will join back to society naturally and we will work in turn on their rehabilitation and awareness.”
Following the completion of identification and security procedures, buses accompanied by members of Internal Security Forces and Autonomous Administration delegation headed towards their areas.
With the release of this batches, the number of residents in the camp has decreased to 72,000 IDPs including IS women and children.
It is mentioned that Al-Hol camp was opened in mid-April 2016, to receive IDPs who were fleeing the areas controlled by IS in Syria and Iraq.
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