Evacuation of al-Hol camp and transfer of its resides to northern Aleppo – Mehr News agency RCO News Agency
According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Al-Mayadin, “Fadi Qasim”, the official appoied by the governme to manage the camp’s affairs, announced that the evaluation showed that the camp lacks basic facilities for living, and for this reason, an immediate decision was made to transfer the resides to prepared camps in Aleppo.
He added: The evacuation operation has started today.
A source in the Syrian governme also emphasized that the vehicles carrying the resides of the camp have moved from al-Hasakah to the north of Aleppo.
A significa decrease in the population of Al-Hol camp
Celine Schmidt, the spokesperson of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, announced that the population of the Al-Hol camp has decreased significaly in rece weeks, and the Syrian governme has informed the agency that it plans to move the remaining resides to another camp and has asked the UNHCR for help in implemeing this measure.
Sources affiliated with humanitarian organizations reported last week that most of the foreigners left the camp after Kurdish forces withdrew from the area in late January.
After eering the northern and eastern regions of the coury, the Syrian security forces took over the responsibility of the camp and an agreeme was reached for the gradual iegration of the military and administrative forces in al-Hasakah.
It should be noted that earlier, about 24,000 people, including nearly 15,000 Syrian citizens and about 6,300 foreign women and children from 42 differe nationalities, lived in the Al-Hol camp, and most of their respective couries refused to return them, but according to the report of the AFP, the number of camp resides has decreased significaly in rece weeks.
