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A new trip of Iraqi nationals leaves Syria's al-Hole towards Iraq
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On Friday, 150 Iraqi families left Hawl Camp east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, and headed to their country, years after residing in the camp.

The trip included 150 families numbering 620 individuals, and they headed towards al-Jad’a Camp south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
 in Nineveh Governorate.

Last week, an Iraqi delegation of the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displaced visited the camp in order to register names of individuals and families that wanted to get out of the Hawl camp.

A well informed source from the camp told North Press, "Two weeks after the visit of the Iraqi delegation, 150 families numbering 620 individuals have been taken out of the camp."

"This is the sixth trip to take Iraqis out of the camp in 15 months," the source added.

Between 2019 and 2020, the Iraqi government abstained from repatriating its nationals from the camp due to demands by tribal leaders not to repatriate them, accusing them of being members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 Organization (ISIS), according to refugees.

Iraqi refugees in the Hawl Camp demand that their country accelerates measures to repatriate them to Iraq in light of the continuation of murders and dire security conditions in the camp.

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. The camp is dubbed as one of the most dangerous camps worldwide for housing thousands of families of the ISIS fighters.

Co-chair of IDPs and Refugees Affairs of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Sheikhmos Ahmad, in previous statements to North Press, called on the Iraqi government to accelerate measures to get Iraqis out of the camp.

Following pressure by the US-led Global Coalition and coordination between the AANES and the Iraqi government, trips to repatriate Iraqis resumed in 2021.

Since mid-2021, six trips of Iraqi families have been taken out of the camp to al-Jad’a Camp east Iraq.
Al Ahram adds:
More than 100 people, including many women, were murdered in al-Hol over an 18-month period, the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
 said in June

In addition to the returned family members, the Iraqi government also received this week about 50 Iraqi IS fighters and leaders who were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces, according to the Observatory.

In early June, Iraq repatriated another 50 Iraqi IS fighters who were detained by Kurdish forces. They were among 3,500 Iraqis held in Syrian Kurdish prisons, a senior military official said at the time.
Posted by: Fred 2022-08-13
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