- Al-Hol is not a camp, it is a caliphate.
And I do not exaggerate, says Khabat Abas, a Kurdish journalist who has visited the camps countless times in recent years.
In the Foreign Office, she tells about how IS women who are held captive have set up their own security forces who patrol around and check that other women follow IS 'strict rules.
Those who break the rules are punished.
- Many are murdered and sometimes the people have been tortured before they are killed.
Since the turn of the year, more than 30 people have been murdered in the Al Hol camp, reports the online news magazine The Syrian Observer.
The attacks have been particularly targeted at Iraqi residents of the camp, but aid workers have also been badly affected.
IS rules apply to everyone in the camp
According to Khabat Abas, the flow of money to camp members has increased, which means that firearms have come into circulation.
- During the last three months, I can not remember how many have been shot.
The organization Doctors Without Borders temporarily suspended its work in the camp after one of its members was shot dead in its tent on 24 February.
- The violence has escalated since New Year, it is enormous and brutal.
Aid workers are terrified of moving around the camp and often hide in tents, says Médecins Sans Frontières' crisis manager Will Turner.
"IS is now a women's organization"
At the same time, the camp has become a center for IS propaganda.
This is what Vera Mironova, a terrorism researcher at Harvard University, tells the Foreign Office.
- IS is now a women's organization.
Now they do all the propaganda, they collect all the money, everything is on the women's shoulders, she says.
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