Iraqi buses arrive at Al-Hol Refugee Camp in North and East Syria to relocate 500 Iraqi nationals
AL-HOL, Syria — After several weeks of obstruction, buses from Iraq arrived at Al-Hol Refugee Camp in North and East Syria on Tuesday to transport Iraqi families of members of the Islamic State (ISIS) to Nineveh Governorate.
According to media sources, a hundred Iraqi families, some 500 individuals, are being transported from Al-Hol Camp to Al-Jada camp, south of Mosul, in Nineveh Governorate.
The relocation was prioritized following several days of increased violent incidents in the Iraqi section of Al-Hol. On 19 May, two Iraqi sisters were killed inside their tent with silenced weapons by unknown persons. They are the most recent deaths in a violent year inside the camps. There have been 53 killings so far in 2021.
In the beginning of May, Baghdad suspended the departure of 500 people from Al-Hol following mediation efforts by the U.S.-led International Coalition to relocate them to a new camp rather than let them return to their homes. Civilians in Nineveh Governorate had complained about the plan to allow the ISIS affiliated families to return to their communities.
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