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Baghouz hostilities have ended, but crisis ‘far from over’ |
2019-04-03 |
[Rudaw] Thousands of people poured out of Baghouz when Kurdish-led forces advanced on the last Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) holdout in eastern Syria. Fatigued, malnourished, and traumatized, many have been relocated to the vastly overcrowded al-Hol camp in Hasaka. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the defeat of ISIS in Baghouz on March 23 following months of fierce fighting ‐ frequently halted to allow civilians to escape the besieged town. The mass exodus from the so-called ’caliphate’ swelled the population of al-Hol camp from 35,000 in February to more than 73,000. Many of them are the wives and children of ISIS bully boys. A significant number are from European and other western states, which have refused to take back their citizens. Responding to the humanitarian emergency unfolding in al-Hol, the Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) ‐ backed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg, Canada, Spain, Switzerland ![]() , Jersey, Iceland, Qatar ![]() , and the UK ‐ announced Monday it was donating $4.3 million to aid agencies operating in the camp. With basic infrastructure reduced to rubble and the ground littered with explosive remnants of war, former residents of Baghouz and Hajin could spend months or even years in al-Hol before they can return home. "High-levels of explosive contamination are currently preventing safe return to these areas, while many women and kiddies face a disconcerting and uncertain future ahead of them," Fleischer said. |
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