Unknown assailants injure Iraqi refugee in Syria’s Hawl Camp
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – An Iraqi refugee was injured on Tuesday in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, after he was shot by unknown assailants believed to be affiliated with the sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS).
Unknown persons shot the 53-year-old Iraqi refugee, Imad al-Abdullah, in the first sector for the Iraqis, North Press reported a security source in the camp.
“Al-Abdullah was shot twice, one in the shoulder and the other in the thigh, and was then transported to al-Hikma Hospital in Hasakah city,” the source added.
In late November, the camp witnessed the killing of two Iraqi refugees by unknown attackers said to be agents of ISIS.
Since early in 2021, more than 90 murders were recorded in the camp most of them were of Iraqi refugees.
Hawl Camp houses about 15,650 families with total of 57,516 individuals including 8,049 Iraqi families and 5,153 Syrian ones.
Additionally, it includes about 2,448 families with an estimate of 8,245 individuals including women and children of detained and dead of foreign ISIS militants.
It is also known as a “ticking time bomb” due to the presence of extremists of ISIS wives and children, and tens of thousands of their supporters in a camp sometimes described as “the most dangerous camp in the world.”