Bodies of two women found in Syria’s Hawl
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) stated that a trench inside a tent in Hawl Camp south of Hasakah, northeast Syria, and bodies of two women were found in the third sector inside the camp.
One of the bodies belongs to Fatima Omar al-Mekhlif, a Syrian woman displaced from Raqqa, while the other body has not been identified, a security source told North Press.
The source added that the Asayish found a trench inside a tent in the foreigners sector in the camp, without giving further details.
Despite tightening security measures, the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells have recently been very active in Hawl Camp, a security source said on Thursday.
Since the beginning of 2022, the camp’s management has recorded 23 murders of nine Syrians, including a paramedic works at Kurdish Red Crescent medical point, and 14 Iraqi refugees, who make up more than half of the camp’s population. In addition, 14 failed assassination attempts were recorded.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 56,775 people; the majority of them are Iraqis. While thousands of wives and children of foreign dead and detainees of the ISIS members live in a special section within the camp. It also houses thousands of internally displaced Syrians, according to the recent obtained statistics.
The camp witnesses consecutive crimes with different ways including gunfire.