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2019-06-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
800 Syrian women, children to leave Al-Hol camp: officials
[Rudaw] Around 800 Syrian women and kiddies will leave the overcrowded al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on Monday and be "taken to their families", officials from the Kurdish-led administration said Sunday.

Many of al-Hol’s residents are the wives and children of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) fighters, placed in the camp when the jihadists’ last holdout of Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor province was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in March.

Among the camp’s 74,000 residents, an estimated 30,000 are Syrian. The rest are a mixture of Iraqis and other foreign nationals. Women and children make up around 90 percent of the camp population.

"It is the (Kurdish) administration’s duty to its people to play a role in the rehabilitation of these women and kiddies, and their reintegration into society," Abdul Hamid al-Mahbash, an official of the Autonomous Administration (AA) of North and East Syria, told a presser Sunday.

The move is part of an agreement between the Kurdish-led administration and local Arab tribes, reached on May 3 at a meeting called to bolster strained relations.

The Arab tribes requested that Syrian women and kiddies be allowed to return home and rehabilitate back into society.

This first group of women and kiddies consist of residents of Raqqa and Tabqa, both of which were once ISIS strongholds, now under the Autonomous Administration’s control.

Reducing the population of al-Hol will help ease the heavy strain on humanitarian services, particularly health facilities.

On May 30, the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy (SARC), the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) and the Norwegian Red Thingy announced a new field hospital will soon open in the camp.

"The camp expanded very rapidly, and this has made it challenging for humanitarians to keep up with the demand, particularly for medical services," said Philip Spoerri, head of ICRC’s delegation in Syria.

"Many people were maimed during the hostilities or on the road to the camp, and months later now they have still not been treated."

Dire conditions and fears the camp could become a hotbed for jihadist activity have motivated authorities to speed up rehabilitation efforts.

Another group of women and kiddies are expected to leave the camp after Eid, according to AFP.
An Nahar clarifies what was slightly obfuscated:
The Kurdish administration in Syria on Sunday said it plans to hand 800 local women and children, including relatives of jihadists, to their families tomorrow in the first such transfer from an overcrowded camp.
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