Held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), al-Hol camp -- Syria's biggest -- holds almost 62,000 people, of whom more than 80 percent are women and kiddies, including Syrians, Iraqis and thousands from as far afield as Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Asia.
as we've seen, the Jihadi
The foreigners are families of jihadists from the Islamic State
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reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) group, which seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The Iraqi and Syrian residents of the camp largely fled subsequent fighting between ISIS and Kurdish forces.
"Between 1 and 16 January, the UN received reports of the murders of 12 Syrian and Iraqi camp residents," said the UN statement, adding that an Iraqi woman was among those killed.
"The disturbing events indicate an increasingly untenable security environment at al-Hol," it added.
The camp had already witnessed several security incidents in recent months, sometimes involving ISIS supporters.
These have included escape attempts and attacks against guards or staff employed by NGOs, sometimes with knives, other times with firearms.
The UN statement published on Thursday said that Imran Riza, its Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, and Muhannad Hadi, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, expressed their "serious concern over the deteriorating security conditions" at the camp.
The two UN officials also stressed the "urgent need for durable solutions to be found for every person living in the camp."
Since the fall of ISIS' self-proclaimed caliphate in March 2019 after a US-backed Kurdish offensive in eastern Syria, Kurdish authorities have repeatedly demanded that countries repatriate women and kiddies. But most countries, especially European nations, are reluctant to take back their citizens. Some, including La Belle France, have brought home a limited number of French jihadists and children.
"The recent rise in violence... jeopardises the ability for the UN and humanitarian partners to continue to safely deliver critical humanitarian assistance," the UN statement added.