NGOs withdraw from Syria’s Hawl Camp following unidentified attack
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – All organizations in the fifth sector in Hawl Camp east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, withdrew on Monday after unidentified masked individuals attacked the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in the camp.
The unidentified attackers stormed the legal department of the NRC in the fifth sector, took cellphones and laptops form all the people who were in the department, and kidnapped an employee as well, an exclusive source told North Press.
The department is currently witnessing a security alert as a result of the increase of such abuses in the camp during the recent months.
It is noteworthy to say that both the fourth and fifth sectors are the core for these abuses where murders are carried out by unknown attackers.
Earlier, the UN Special Representative, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said in a conference in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on April 9, Hawl Camp, “is a ticking time bomb. If it goes off, it will impact not only the region but also far beyond.”
The Hawl Camp, 40 kilometers east of Hasakah, is a house for 56.773 individuals numbering 15.431 families, 2.423 of which are families of the dead and detainees of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) foreign descendant and detainees from over 60 countries, according to the recent obtained statistics.