UN condemns killing of two girl children in Syria’s Hawl
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The UN condemned on Friday “heinous killing” of two Egyptian girl children, whose bodies were found in “sewage ditch” at Hawl Camp east of Hasakah.
A report received by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the two girls “had been raped a few days earlier.”
The office has monitored several killing at the camp including “42 people, including 10 Iraqi men, six Syrian men, four Iraqi women, 18 Syrian women, one Iraqi boy, one Iraqi girl and the two Egyptian girls.”
On November 15, residents of the camp found the bodies of the two Egyptian girls, the 13-year-old Khadija and 10-year-old Hafsa, in foreigners sector at the camp.
“These two girls were trapped in the desperate circumstances of this camp through no fault of their own,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk.
Displacement camps in northeastern Syria are a known hotbed for violence, exploitation and abuse, and fresh radicalization, according to the office.
It also praised that the number of countries that have stepped forward in repatriating nationals from the camp has increased.
Such an incident serves as a “wake-up call to the international community” for speeding the processes of repatriations.
He called on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for protecting the residents of the camp and that “They must adopt urgent measures to guarantee the safety, security and well-being” of them.
On November 16, Sheikhmous Ahmed, the Co-chair of the Office of IDPs and Refugees Affairs of the AANES’ Executive Council, said in a statement that the killing of two Egyptian girls is evidence that ISIS “has reorganized its ranks.”
He considered the incident to be a message to the international community. “The organization is still present and will continue.
In the current year, 517 persons of the children and women of ISIS militants have been repatriated from the camps of northeast Syria.
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.