Tausende IS-Angehörige aus dem Al Hol Camp entkommen

Das berüchtigte Al Hol Camp in Nordostsyrien, in dem tausende von IS-Familien interniert waren, scheint inzwischen mehr oder weniger leer zu sein, womit sich die schlimmsten Befürchtungen bewahrheiten.

Jahrelang weigerten sich europäische Staaten ihre Angehörigen zurück zu nehmen und freuten sich, dass für wenig Geld die SDF die Drecksarbeit für sie erledigte und sie ihnen vom Hals hielt. Wie es in diesem Camp zuging, darüber berichtete unter anderem Syria Direct schon 2019.

Wie es dort heute aussieht kann man bei Enab Baladi nachlesen:

Sources at humanitarian organizations and eyewitnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that most families of foreign members of the Islamic State group have left al-Hol camp in the eastern countryside of al-Hasakah (northeastern Syria), after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from it in late January and it was taken over by security forces affiliated with the Syrian government.

This followed the Syrian government taking control of the camp, as part of its wider deployment across large areas of northern and eastern Syria that had been under SDF control, before the two sides reached an agreement providing for a gradual merger of military and administrative forces in al-Hasakah governorate.

Al-Hol camp previously housed about 24,000 people, including around 15,000 Syrians and about 6,300 foreign women and children from 42 nationalities, most of whose countries refuse to repatriate them. The camp is considered one of the most prominent humanitarian and security files in northeastern Syria.

A source at a humanitarian organization said the foreigners’ section of the camp has become “almost empty” after Kurdish forces, who had been running it withdrew and Syrian security forces took over.

Another source said that “since last Saturday, there have been only 20 families left in the muhajirat section”, the area designated for foreigners. It had been heavily fortified and housed large numbers of women and children from Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

The source added that “a large portion of them were smuggled to Idlib and other governorates, and a very small number entered the sections designated for Syrians inside the camp”, without providing further details on who was responsible for getting them out.