HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) found, yesterday night, the body of an Iraqi refugee, who was killed by unknown individuals believed to be sleeper cells of the Islamic State organization (ISIS).
After being informed by residents, the Asayish found the body of the Iraqi refugee Muhammad Ibrahim, shot in the head, in the first sector of the camp, a source of the Asayish told north Press.
Last week, the Asayish forces in Hawl camp arrested 14 members of ISIS sleeper cell, who participated in killing and assassination operations.
On 12 November, ISIS sleeper cells infiltrated into the reception department, fired at a number of refugees killing two Iraqis including head of the Iraqi Council, and wounded several women.
During 2021, the Hawl Camp has witnesses many killing incidents most of them were carried out via bullets, and silent individual weapons.
Since early 2021, about 91 murders were recorded in the camp most of them of Iraqi refugees.
The Hawl Camp houses about 15,650 families of which 8,049 Iraqi families, 5,153 Syrian families, 2,448 families in total of 8,245 individuals of women and children of detainees, militants, and dead of foreign ISIS.
Hawl Camp is known as a “ticking time bomb” due to the presence of extremists of ISIS wives and children, and tens of thousands of their supporters in a camp sometimes described as “the most dangerous camp in the world.”