“Danger is up ahead upon increased murders at al-Hawl camp”: NE Syria camps’ official warns

Hasakah – North-Press Agency

Delsoz Yousef – Jindar Abdulqader

Al-Hawl camp, which includes thousands of families of the Islamic State (ISIS) militants, is witnessing increased cases of murders beside the burning of tents, which threatens of the recovery of ISIS sleeper cells, while the Autonomous Administration-management stresses that the recent Security Council decision to close the border crossings with northeastern Syria increases the burden of the camp management.

The camp which is run by the Autonomous Administration, has become a focus for victims of the wives of ISIS militants, as murders, burning of tents and beatings, as  threats continued in the past two weeks against Iraqi refugees, and families of ISIS of whom reject the extremist ideology, yet, the perpetrators are unidentified because of the clothes worn by ISIS women in the camp.

North-Press met with the official of the Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees in the Autonomous Administration in North and East of Syria, Sheikhmous Ahmad, who emphasized that “the wives of ISIS militants have regulated themselves again, and have formed their own courts inside al-Hawl camp, to try those willing to move away from the terrorist group and integrate with society, which created massive chaos throughout the camp, and increased the number of murders, beatings, and burning of tents," he said.

Ahmad added: "The humanitarian and relief organizations' departure from the region, after the Turkish invasion of north-eastern Syria, weighed the burden of the Autonomous Administration in terms of managing al-Hawl camp, especially with the exception of the recent Security Council resolution for the border crossings with northern Syria, regarding aid access."

At its annual meeting on the mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to the Syrian territories on January 10, the Security Council announced its approval to rely on only two border crossings, namely Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama crossings on the Syrian-Turkish borders, excluding the crossings on the borders with Iraq and Jordan, after the Russian Vito.

Furthermore, Ahmad noted that the state of chaos and the rebellion of ISIS women have preceded the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by calling on women in al-Hawl camp to disobey, rebel and attack the security forces. As a Tajik woman killed her granddaughter because she rejected the extremist ideology.

"These women derive their strength from the ideology of the extremist group, and claiming that the state of Islam remains, and that it has not collapsed, considering al-Hawl camp as their mini state, to be a point of start from which they would spread extremist ideology throughout the world," he continued.

Regarding the group’s recovery inside the camp, the official said: "Women are the ones who seek to revive the group, accompanied by their children, who are the fuel of the next war. These children were previously trained and numbered in thousands, they call themselves Ashbal al-Khilapha (the Cubs of Caliphate), then they are trained by their mothers to create chaos, as those women along with their children form the new face of ISIS."

Furthermore, north and eastern Syria camps' official Seikhmous Ahmad stressed that if the countries concerned do not regain their citizens and support the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to limit the expansion of ISIS thoughts, then the threat of terrorism is coming and will cover the entire world, not only the north-east regions of Syria.

Some days ago, France indicated that the IDP camps in north-eastern Syria are suffering from a difficult humanitarian situation, which could turn into a "time bomb.” With the closure of the two border crossings with Iraq for the entry of humanitarian aid, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian warned that the camps of the displaced people in northeastern Syria are suffering as a "very worrying" humanitarian situation and could turn into a "time bomb.”

French Minister Le Drian spoke to the National Assembly's foreign committee, saying: "The humanitarian situation in the camps raises increasing concerns, and it may develop into something like (a time bomb) threatening to blow up the situation in Roj and al-Hawl camps.”