North and East Syria security forces thwart attempt to smuggle ISIS families from Al-Hol Camp

AL-HOL, Syria — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) of North and East Syria stated that they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle several families affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) out of Al-Hol Refugee Camp. 

The ISF published a video of the smuggling attempt, which was through a large truck loaded with timber. A section of the truck bed was constructed in such a way that people could hide under the lumber. The truck was carrying 56 members of families affiliated with ISIS families, including 39 children and 17 women.

The ISF stated that they arrested the ISIS families and the smuggler.

Al-Hol Refugee Camp is located east of Hasakah city in North and East Syria and houses about 60,000 displaced people and refugees, in addition to thousands of families affiliated with ISIS.

In a video report, North Press Agency revealed the obvious Turkish role in helping ISIS women to escape.

According to the report, ISIS women are paying thousands of dollars to a Turkish relief organization to facilitate their escape to areas under Turkish control in northern Syria.

According to one of the women in the camp, the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation is used to smuggle ISIS women via a car that collected garbage in the camp in exchange for sums of more than $18,000 USD.

Escape attempts are expected to continue in the face of the international community’s refusal to repatriate their ISIS nationals detained in the region.

The ISF and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been making great efforts in controlling the camps and thwarting the escape attempts.