53 Syrian families to leave Hawl Camp for Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a new batch of Syrian families are preparing to leave the Hawl Camp, Hasakah eastern countryside, to go to their hometowns in Deir ez-Zor.
“The batch consists of 53 families with 217 individuals,” Munir Muhammad, member of the camp’s management said.
The batch will be the 22nd of Syrian families to leave the Hawl Camp voluntarily following a decision by the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to take out the Syrian families wishing to leave.
In 2020, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) launched an initiative in coordination with dignitaries and tribal leaders to take out the Syrian families from Hawl Camp.
“The camp’s management will keep on evacuating the Syrian families wishing to leave in accordance with a program by the management to evacuate as many Syrian families as possible,” Muhammad added.
Hawl camp, 40 km east of Hasakah, houses about 56,150 people from about 15,250 families, with the departure of this trip, including 2,423 families of the dead and detainees of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) foreigners from about 60 countries.
Hawl Camp 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”.
The new batch brings total toll of Syrian families leaving the camp voluntarily to 1,351.