Foreign countries disregard of children in Syria jeopardizes their future 

RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The foreign countries negligence to repatriate their citizens, particularly the children present in northeast Syria, jeopardizes future experiences, an official of the Child Protection Office in the city of Raqqa, northern Syria said Monday.

The recent activities carried out by sleeper cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) recalled the imperative the countries to find a solution for thousands of women and children living in an unsafe environment in Hawl Camp.

Amira al-Hadsan, chairwoman of Raqqa’s Child Protection Office, said the children have rights that should be entailed by their own countries and they should be repatriated, rehabilitated and reintegrated within the society. 

She told North Press that the children have rights to return to their own countries, obtain nationality and stop living in an unsafe environment in Hawl Camp.

Hawl Camp shelters 56,000 people, 36,000 out of them are underage, according to the camp’s manager Hamrin Hassan.  

On March 23, Save the Children warned “It will take 30 years before foreign children stuck in camps in northeast Syria can return home if repatriations continue at the current rate.”

Reporting by Ammar Abdullatif