Iraq to repatriate its refugees from Syria’s Hawl
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Iraqi government is planning to receive 500 Iraqi families from Hawl Camp, northeast of Syria.
The camp management will conduct trips starting next week.
The trips include 500 families who had earlier registered their names to leave.
Munir Muhammad, an official of the Exit Office in the camp, said that they are going to send out a batch of Iraqis who had earlier registered their names.
“The step comes after coordination between the Autonomous Administration and the Iraqi government,” Muhammad added.
The exit will include those previously registered in 2018/2019, and they will be sent out in batches, the first of which is next week, according to Muhammad.
He estimated the number of people prepared to return to their homeland at about 3,000.
The coordination between the Autonomous Administration and the Iraqi government, during 2017 and 2018, resulted in running 9 trips for Iraqis wishing to return to their country.
The total number of returnees at that time was about 7,500 Iraqi refugees, according to Suleiman Hammadi, former head of the Iraqi Council within the Hawl Camp.
It is worthy to mention that Hammadi was killed on November 9, 2020.