152 Iraqi families to leave Syria’s Hawl Camp
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – 152 Iraqi families are scheduled to leave Hawl Camp in east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, towards Mosul in Iraq on Tuesday, an exclusive source told North Press on Monday.
The source said the camp’s administration notified that 152 Iraqi families are to spend the Monday’s night in Reception Sector in the camp in preparation to leave the camp on Tuesday.
The Security Iraqi committee informed the Iraqi families that they would be moved to al-Jada’a camp in Mosul, the source noted.
The decision was made in coordination between the camp’s administration, the relevant Iraqi Security Committee and the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, the source said.
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has always called on countries of origin of ISIS family members stranded in Hawl Camp to repatriate their nationals. However, those repatriated are mostly children.
In March, an Iraqi delegation visited northeast Syria aiming to discuss a mechanism by which it could repatriate Iraqi refugees living in Hawl Camp.
Three weeks later, Ali Abbas spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced indicated- in a statement made to North Press- to the probability of repatriating 500 Iraqi families from the camp to their country.
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.
Initially, the camp was established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) IN 1991 to accommodate Iraqi Refugees in the aftermath of the Gulf war.
Following the capture of the last territorial pocket of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Baghouz in 2019, the camp became overcrowded by Syrian IDPs, Iraqi refugees and ISIS families mostly of foreign fighters.