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Al-Hol Refugee Essay
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Recently, the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, home to over two million residents has been occupied by IS forcing residents to flee and seek refuge. According to the British Broadcasting Company, over 5,000 people have crossed the border into Syria since October 9th, 2016. They all have migrated to the al-Hol refugee camp over 100 miles away from Mosul. The al-Hol refugee camp is fitted to house 7,500 refugees; currently it is overcrowded at nearly 9,000 residents. The al-Hol camp is expected to receive around 3,000 more residents in the next 24 hours.
The camp now is packed with runaways, however Save the Children plans to enlarge the camp to hold up to 50,000 runaways. At al-Hol, the estate their is filled with trash, only has 16 toilets, and has not even a single drop of clean water. Since IS is stopping people from crossing the border, citizens of Mosul are starting to build refugee camps just outside of the city. One of the camps there is