Displaced woman found killed in Syria’s Hawl Camp

HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) found a Syrian woman killed on Tuesday in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah. She was killed by unknown persons believed to be affiliated with ISIS sleeper cells.

North Press reported a security source in the camp as saying “they found the body of the 36-year-old Syrian woman displaced, Latifa Suleiman, from Aleppo, in the fifth sector of the camp for Syrians.”

“The woman was killed with a sharp object in the neck,” the source added.

On December 9, the Asayish forces found the body of Doha Ismail who was killed by unknown attackers. 

On November 22, the Asayish forces arrested 14 members of ISIS sleeper cells in the Hawl Camp.

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.”

Reporting by Jindar Abdulqader