Al Hawl refugee camp

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The Al Hawl refugee camp, in Syria holds women and children who are refugees from Daesh's short-lived "Islamic state", a quasi state set up in enclaves in Syria and Iraq.[1] As of March 2022 the camp held approximately 50,000 women and children. Approximatley 10,000 of those women and children are citizens of foreign nations.

Some of the refugees are extremist militants.[2] Other refugees were never militants, and were tricked or forced into traveling to Daesh. And a third group were originally ideologically militant, but subsequently defected, and returned to moderation, after witnessing the extreme brutality and racism of the pure islam of Daesh, in practice. Camp authorities can't distinguish which refugees are dangerous militants, and those refugees are able to terrorize the rest of the camp. In November, 2022, after a 24 day security crackdown and weapons search, two egyptians were found beheaded, and dumped in a sewage pond. They had been just eleven and thirteen years old.

Individuals held in the camp include:
name born nationality notes
Hoda Sharrouf 2003 Australia
  • Hoda was only eleven when her parents brought her to Daesh, and was soon orphaned, so she escaped having her parent marry her off as soon as she reached puberty, like her older sister Zaynab.[3]
Zaynab Sharrouf 2001 Australia
  • Zaynab was only thirteen years old when her parents married her to an Islamic fighter, and only 14 when she gave birth to the first of several children.[3]
Shayma Assaad 2001 Australia
  • Shaymaa was only fifteen years old when her parents brought her Daesh.[4][3]
Shamima Begum 2000 stateless
  • Born and raised in the United Kingdom, she had her UK citizenship strippped from her.[5] In 2018 her first two children starved to death in the camp while she was carrying her third child.
Kirsty Rosse-Emile 1994 Australia
  • A convert to Islam who followed her husband to Daesh.[3] Doctors in the camp warned her that the frostbite that had set in in her young daughters fingers put her at risk of requiring amputation.
Kimberly Gwen Polman 1973 Canada-USA
  • Traveled to Daesh to marry a man she met online.[6]

References

  1. "Clashes between ISIL and Kurds kill four in Syrian camp". Aljazeera. 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20221201145339/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/29/clashes-between-isil-and-kurds-kill-four-in-syrian-camp-monitor. Retrieved 2023-01-08. "Approximately 56,000 people live in Al-Hol, an overcrowded SDF-run camp for displaced people that has been plagued by murders and regular escape attempts, according to the United Nations. The camp hosts about 10,000 foreigners, including the wives and children of ISIL fighters who are detained in a high-security annexe guarded by SDF forces." 
  2. "Two Egyptian girls found dead at Syria camp hosting ISIL families". Aljazeera. 2022-11-15. Archived from the original on 2022-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20221228222755/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/15/two-egyptian-girls-found-dead-at-syria-camp-hosting-isil-families. Retrieved 2023-01-08. "The killings are the first since US-backed Syrian fighters concluded a 24-day sweep at al-Hol in mid-September during which dozens of people were detained and weapons were confiscated in the operation. The operation came after ISIL sleeper cells committed crimes inside the camp." 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 David Wroe, Josh Dye, Erin Pearson (2019-04-04). "What should Australia do with the children of Islamic State?". Sydney Morning Herald (Al-Hawl refugee camp). https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/what-should-australia-do-with-the-children-of-islamic-state-20190404-p51aw8.html. Retrieved 2019-04-07. "Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age from al-Hawl camp, 16-year-old Hoda Sharrouf also says she forgives her father and mother, Tara Nettleton, for dragging her to Syria along with her four siblings when she was just 11 years old." 
  4. "PM 'won't put one Australian life at risk' to bring ISIS supporters home". MSN News. 2019-04-01. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/australia/pm-wont-put-one-australian-life-at-risk-to-bring-isis-supporters-home/ar-BBVt5KW?li=AAgfYrC. Retrieved 2019-04-08. "His wife Shayma Assaad is pregnant and the couple are parents to three boys aged one, two and three." 
  5. "IS teen's wish to return stirs UK debate over jihadi brides". France 24 (London). 2019-02-15. Archived from the original on 2019-02-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190215181844/https://www.france24.com/en/20190215-teens-wish-return-stirs-uk-debate-over-jihadi-brides. "The Times newspaper managed to find an unrepentant Begum -- now 19 and about to give birth for the third time after seeing her first two children die -- at a refugee camp in eastern Syria." 
  6. Kim Hjelmgaard, Michael Collins (2019-02-19). "President Trump: ISIS wife Hoda Muthana won't be allowed to return to the United States". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2022-11-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20221122131904/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/02/19/hoda-muthana-isis-bride-wants-face-us-justice-return-alabama/2914244002/. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "All were taken into custody. Muthana may be the first American spouse or partner of an Islamic State fighter who has sought to return home. The New York Times has reported that another woman, dual U.S.-Canadian national Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, is also in the al-hawl refugee camp in Syria. She left Canada in 2015."