Second batch of Syrian IDPs leaves Syria’s Hawl in 2022
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – 400 individuals including 77 families from Deir ez-Zor governorate and its countryside, east Syria, are preparing to leave Hawl Camp to their areas east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, co-chair of Hawl Camp Council said, Monday.
In October, 2020, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria AANES Executive Council decided to evacuate the Syrian families that wanted to leave.
This is the 23th batch after the initiative launched by the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) and tribal sheikhs to evacuate the Syrians from the camp.
The SDC is the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). It was founded in 2015 and includes all the communities of north and east Syria.
Jihan Hannan, co-chair of the Hawl Camp Council, said that this is the second trip of Syrian IDPs to be evacuated during the current year, seven months after halt on the back of al-Sina’a prison events.
On January 20, the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells attacked al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah where thousands of ISIS detainees were held whom captured earlier by the SDF during battles against the hardline ISIS.
The ISIS attack coincided with three successive explosions carried out by ISIS sleeper cells to free their fellows out from the prison.
Some ISIS detainees managed to escape while others deployed in the vicinity of the prison and hid among the residential neighborhoods.
Heavy clashes that lasted for about ten days took place in the neighborhoods. Then, the SDF and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) regained control over the prison with an aerial support by the US-led Global Coalition to defeat ISIS.
Also Hannan told North Press, “Other Syrian IDPs will be evacuated in the coming weeks.”
With this new trip, the number of the evacuated families has reached about 1.428.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
The camp witnesses murders with different methods, most notably firearms. The management of the camp fears that the latest Turkish threats of invading areas in northern Syria would pave the way for ISIS to reorganize its ranks; North Press cited a statement by the management as saying.
In turn, Khairiya Abdullah, an IDP to be transformed to Baghuz, said that she has been residing in the camp for five years.
“During the past two years, we have lived in constant fear, and my children have grown up in poor security conditions in the camp,” she added.
Abdullah, a mother of nine who hails from Iraq, has been living in Syria for 35 years.
She confirmed that she doesn’t have any relatives or home in Syria, but she is heading to Baghuz, hoping for a better future.
In mid-January, Munir Muhammad, member of the camp’s management said that 53 families numbering 217 individuals were evacuated from the camp.
The number of the camp’s residents after evacuating the new batch has reach 54.800, most of them are Iraqis.