Syria: three Iraqi dead in al-Hol refugee camp

Photo of al-Hol camp (illustrative image).

Delil SOULEIMAN AFP / Archivos

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In northeastern Syria, there were three deaths - including a woman - in two days in the al-Hol camp, where families of jihadists from the Islamic State group are being held.

The victims are of Iraqi nationality.

More than 60,000 people are held in this camp by the Kurdish forces of Syria in very difficult sanitary conditions and in a climate of violence and insecurity.

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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), it was members of the Islamic State group who shot dead the three Iraqi nationals, although two of them were in an area of ​​the camp reserved for people. threatened by the jihadist organization.

Deplorable conditions

Also according to the OSDH, these murders bring to 78 the number of victims recorded in the al-Hol camp since the beginning of the year.

In this camp are crammed

of fighters of the Islamic State group but also Iraqi refugees.

The living conditions there are deplorable and the Kurdish forces in Syria are unable to fight effectively against the cells of the Islamic State group.

Lawless areas

Neither the government of Damascus, nor that of Baghdad, nor most Western countries (including France) intend to bring back their nationals detained in the various camps in northeastern Syria.

And this, despite humanitarian appeals and despite the threat posed by these lawless areas.

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