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53 Syrian families to leave the Hawl Camp, northeast Syria, to go to their hometowns in Deir ez Zor
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On Sunday, a new batch of Syrian families are preparing to leave the Hawl Camp, Hasakah eastern countryside, to go to their hometowns in Deir ez-Zor.

"The batch consists of 53 families with 217 individuals," Munir Muhammad, member of the camp’s management said.

The batch will be the 22nd of Syrian families to leave the Hawl Camp voluntarily 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.

In 2020, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) launched an initiative in coordination with dignitaries and tribal leaders to take out the Syrian families from Hawl Camp.

"The camp’s management will keep on evacuating the Syrian families wishing to leave in accordance with a program by the management to evacuate as many Syrian families as possible," Muhammad added.
Rudaw adds:
Ali Mohammed, 72, who had been put in the al-Hol camp since 2018, returned home on Sunday.

Mohammed was acting as a preacher within the ranks of ISIS and seven of his cousins who also had links within the organization were killed during clashes with Kurdish forces and campaigns of the counter-ISIS coalition in the north and east of the country

Mohammed claims he is not an extremist, nor is he linked to any radical ideology, but that all he wants is a peaceful life at home.

"I am a Muslim. I am not associated with any organizations or armed groups," Ali Mohammed, an elderly former ISIS member, told Rudaw as he was preparing to live the camp along with his family to Deir ez-Zor's outlying village of Diblane.

Camp authorities say that in coordination with local officials in Deir ez-Zor, they will monitor the behavior of the returnees.
Posted by: Fred 2022-01-17
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