New batch of Syrians left Hawl camp in Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – A new batch of Syrian displaced people left on Monday, the Hawl camp in the eastern countryside of the city of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
This was the eighth batch that left the camp within the initiative launched by the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) with the aim of evacuating the Hawl camp from the Syrians.
The batch included 21 families with a total of 67 persons, some of them were from the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, but have been residing in cities and towns of the Jazira region for years.
“The new batch comes within the SDC initiative to evacuate the camp from the Syrians who want to left,” Sheikhmous Ahmad, head of the Office of Displaced Persons and Refugees in the Autonomous Administration, told North Press.
“The batch consisted of people from Hasakah, Tel Tamr, Shaddadi, and Markada, and a new another batch will left the camp to the Raqqa and its countryside during the coming days,” he added.
The seventh batch of the Syrian families who were from Raqqa and Tabqa, left the camp on December 10, where it consisted of 105 families with a total of 350 persons.
The Hawl camp houses more than 64,000 people, including thousands of women and children from ISIS militants.
The Office of Displaced Persons and Refugees in the Autonomous Administration estimates the number of Syrians in it at about 23,000, the majority of whom are children.