UN warns of increasingly untenable security situation at camp holding families of members of Islamic State
Al-Hol camp holds almost 62,000 people, of whom more than 80 percent are women and children (AFP) By Published date: 22 January 2021 15:27 UTC | Last update: 2 months ago
Twelve murders have taken place at a displacement camp in northeast Syria in just over two weeks, the UN has said, sounding the alarm over an increasingly untenable security situation.
Run by Kurdish forces, al-Hol camp holds almost 62,000 people, of whom more than 80 percent are women and children, including Syrians, Iraqis and thousands from as far afield as Europe and Asia.
UN says 12 murdered in Syria camp in two weeks
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Beirut (AFP)
Twelve murders have taken place at a displaced camp in northeast Syria in just over two weeks, the UN said Thursday, sounding the alarm over an increasingly untenable security situation.
Held by Kurdish forces, Al-Hol camp Syria s biggest holds almost 62,000 people, of whom more than 80 percent are women and children, including Syrians, Iraqis and thousands from as far afield as Europe and Asia.
The foreigners are families of jihadists from the Islamic State group, which seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The Iraqi and Syrian residents of the camp largely fled subsequent fighting between IS and Kurdish forces.
The killing of civilians in separate car bomb attacks in northern Syria on Saturday has been condemned by top UN humanitarian officials for the country. .
United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Imran Riza, and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, Muhannad Hadi: Joint Statement on Civilian Casualties in Northern Syria [EN/AR]
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The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Mr. Imran Riza, and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, Mr. Muhannad Hadi, strongly condemn two separate events in northern Syria, which through the indiscriminate use of improvised explosive devices, have claimed civilian lives and led to serious injury of others.
On 2 January, a car bomb exploded in Ras al-Ain in a market area on a main road, with reports indicating that the blast killed two child siblings, and injured their mother. At least three shops were damaged as a result of the explosion, and several other civilians were injured.