New batch of IDPs leaves Hawl Camp to Syria’s Manbij
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, a new batch of displaced Syrians left Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, towards their areas in Manbij and its countryside, in the north of the country.
“This batch includes 51 families in total of 200 people heading for Manbij and its countryside,” Munir Muhammad, an official in the Exit Office in Hawl Camp, told North Press.
This is the 21st batch of displaced Syrians who have left under the decision of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), after the initiative of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) as well as the sheikhs and dignitaries of the region’s tribes.
“We will continue evacuating the camp from those who want to leave within a schedule set by the camp management to take out as many families as we can from Hawl Camp,” Muhammad added.
On November 24, the 20th batch which consisted of 19 Syrian families in total of 65 people left Hawl Camp to Hasakah and its countryside, northeast Syria.
It should be mentioned that the AANES Executive Council decided to empty Hawl Camp of Syrian families, and to allow Syrians who want to leave.
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.”