The problem of the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria continues, which houses large numbers of “ISIS” members and their families from Iraq, Syria, and various countries around the world, warning of a new danger looming over Iraq’s security.
After the severe disputes that erupt from time to time inside the camp between leaders and members of the organization, a British report revealed today, Saturday, confrontations and open carrying of weapons in the foreign families section for ISIS families.
Iraq seeks to close the Al-Hol camp in Syria, which accommodates tens of thousands of wives and children of ISIS militants, and also includes supporters of the terrorist organization, in order to reduce the risks of armed threats across the borders with Syria.
According to a report by the British Middle East Forum website, “The camp is located near the Syrian border with Iraq, which the world largely forgot today, and it presents harsh evidence of the continued activity and strength of the organization in general and the idea of ISIS in particular, as well as the inadequate and mocking nature of the response of many Western governments to this reality.”
It added, “In the six sections of Al-Hol, the Iraqi group is the largest and is located in areas 1-3, while sections 4 and 5 are where Syrians are detained, and in section 6, which the camp authorities consider the most dangerous area and difficult to access in the camp, where 6,480 members of foreign ISIS fighters’ families live.”
The report continued: “According to officials, the ISIS system and its governing method are applied in the camp, and they openly carry weapons in the camp, and during the past week, they attacked a tent belonging to the International Red Cross. They cover their faces and come out and attack where they say Al-Hol is one of their bases and an important part of their infrastructure.”
The report indicated that “ISIS has killed 170 camp detainees since 2019, and the organization governs the camp residents with the brutality it is famous for.”
Informed sources revealed on March 11 last year, the intensification of disputes between the families of leaders and elements of ISIS in the Al-Hol camp, amid information indicating that a large number of these families wish to stay in Syria, as all of them are wanted by the security forces and tribes on charges of committing killings, bombings, and displacement against the province’s residents during their invasion of Anbar cities.
Political and security circles in Iraq fear the use of ISIS in the Al-Hol camp by the United States as a card to destabilize the security situation again.
It is worth mentioning that the coordination framework leader Adi Abdul Hadi confirmed on February 5 last year that America wants to reopen a secret passage to Al-Hol Syrian towards Iraq by bombing western Anbar, as the presence of the Popular Mobilization Forces in this area is a danger to American plans, which want to transfer terrorists by all means and create secret passages for their flow.”
The Al-Hol camp, which is under strict guard and supervised by the Syrian Democratic Forces, includes about 48,000 people after they were 73,000 people, where the majority of the camp residents are women and children of ISIS, which reinforces fears of the birth of a new terrorist generation.
Thousands of ISIS members were transferred to the Al-Hol camp after being defeated in Syria in March 2019, and the end of their control over large areas of Iraqi and Syrian territories.
The return of these families sparked the anger of many parties, considering them affiliated with ISIS, and their return poses a great danger to Iraq, said MP Mohammed Karim earlier to “Al-Alam Al-Jadeed,” “These decisions taken have external effects to recycle these killer bombs back into the country, and they know that these people were raised in crime with their ISIS mothers and fathers.”
The history of the establishment of the Al-Hol camp dates back to the 1990s, where it was established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, on the outskirts of the town of Al-Hol in coordination with the Syrian government, and more than 15,000 Iraqi and Palestinian refugees fled to it, many of whom migrated to various parts of the world with the assistance of the United Nations, especially after the events of 1991 when the former Iraqi regime invaded Kuwait, and the United States led an international alliance to fight against it.
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