Plans underway to repatriate 150 Iraqi families from Hawl Camp – official
ERBIL, KRI, Iraq (North Press) – TheIraqi Ministry of Migration and Displaced announced on Thursday it intends to repatriate nearly 150 Iraqi families from Hawl Camp in east of Hasakah city, northeast Syria.
The ministry’s spokesperson Ali Abbas Jahangir told North Press that preparations were underway to repatriate those families from Hawl Camp but up to now no timetable was given for that.
If happened, it would be the first in 2023 following six batches over the past two years by the result of which 925 families left the camp.
“There is a perception to repatriate Iraqis in 2023,” he told North Press.
On Iraqi soil, all returnees undergo security measures and receive psychiatric rehabilitation courses at al-Jada’ camp in the Nineveh governorate before returning to their homes.
On October 18, 2022, Iraqi authorities repatriated 157 families from Hawl Camp to al-Jada’a camp, 60 km south of Mosul city, raising the total number of Iraqi families who left the camp to 925.
Iraqis are second to none regarding figures of residents in the infamous camp which homes around 50.000 of the family members of the Islamic State (ISIS) from different nationalities.