272 Syrian families left Hawl Camp for Raqqa in 2021
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The total toll of Syrian families that voluntarily left Hawl Camp in east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, and headed to Raqqa in 2021 were approximately 272, Raqqa Civil Council said on Sunday.
The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) launched an initiative in 2020 in coordination with dignitaries and tribal leaders to take out the Syrian families from Hawl Camp.
Last year, 272 families left the camp on three batches on the bail of dignitaries and tribal leaders, Amr Diyab, an official of Public Affairs Office in the Raqqa Civil Council said.
Every tribal leader recognizes a family will guarantee them so that the family gets permission to leave the camp, Diyab added.
Ahead of evacuating the families, the office sends documents and information about them to the camp’s management. Then, a delegation from the office receives the families leaving, Diyab noted.
94 families, with 329 individuals left in the first batch, 80 families with 296 individuals in the second, and 98 families with 344 individuals left in the third batch.
The total toll of the Syrian citizens who left the camp for Raqqa was 969 individuals, according to the Public Affairs Office.
To keep these families safe, the office receives them, check their personal civil documents and identities, and register their new addresses in Raqqa in official archives for permanent reviews.
While families who leave the camp and are not residents of the city of Raqqa, are given their personal identification documents to go to their centers of residence such as Idlib, Aleppo and Homs countryside, according to the Public Affairs Office.
Diyab indicated that other families from Raqqa, that number 40, are scheduled to leave Hawl Camp in next batches after a list containing their names is submitted to the camp’s management.
Since October 2020, 19 batches of Syrian families have left Hawl Camp following a decision by the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to take out the Syrian families wishing to leave.
Hawl camp, 40 km east of Hasakah, houses about 56,150 people from about 15,250 families, with the departure of this trip, including 2,423 families of the dead and detainees of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) foreigners from about 60 countries.
Hawl Camp is also 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”.