Woman killed in northeast Syria’s Hawl Camp
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) found the body of a woman killed in her own tent in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah governorate, northeast Syria.
The woman is believed to be killed by Islamic State (ISIS) cell members.
Some IDPs reported they found Doha Ismael, 35, dead in her own tent in the section designated for the Syrians, North Press reported a security source.
“Four masked men carrying guns and pistols entered the tent, beat me on the head and then shot my mother four times directly in her head,” son of the victim said.
Two days earlier, the Iraqi refugee Imad al-Abdullah, 53, in the first section of Hawl Camp, survived a murder attempt.
Anonymous gunmen, suspected to be ISISI cell members, shot al-Abdullah in his shoulder.
In November, two Iraqi refugee were killed in less than 24 hours by guns equipped with silencers.
In late November, the Asayish arrested 14 members of ISIS cell who carried out killings inside the camp.
On November 12, ISIS cell members sneaked to the reception hall in the camp and fired bullets on numbers of refugees, killing head of the Iraqi council in addition to another refugee, and wounding some women.
Numerous killings took place in Hawl Camp over 2021. The majority of the victims died by bullets or pistols equipped with silencers.
Since the beginning of 2021, the Asayish recorded more than 90 murders, mostly 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.”