The UN Coordinator in Syria, Imran Rida, stressed that the Kurdish-controlled al-Hol camp is suffering from growing instability, and the children held there are doomed to a life without a future.

He explained to reporters in Geneva that “94 percent of the prisoners in the camp are women and children”, noting that “it is a very harsh and increasingly unsafe place.” He noted: “There have been 106 murders in the camp since last January, and many of the victims were women.”

Reda stated that “about 27,000 Iraqis, 18,000 to 19,000 Syrians and about 12,000 citizens of other nationalities are in detention,” stressing that “14.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria, an increase of 1.2 million more than in 2021. the highest casualties since the beginning of the Syrian war.

The al-Hol camp was supposed to be a temporary detention center pending trial, but there are still about 56,000 people being held there, most of them Syrians and Iraqis, some of them associated with ISIS, which has taken control of entire areas of Iraq and Syria. in 2014. The rest are citizens of other countries, including children and other relatives of fighters in the organization.