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Three Iraqis killed in Syria’s Al-Hol camp: monitor
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DAMASCUS, 14 November 2021, (TON): A monitor said Saturday “three Iraqi nationals, including a woman, were killed in violence inside the northeastern Syrian camp of Al-Hol that houses relatives of suspected jihadists.”
The overcrowded camp is under the control of the Kurdish administration running the region but violence, mostly perpetrated by the Islamic State group, is frequent. According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a woman originally from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul died of bullet wounds on Saturday.
On Friday, two Iraqi refugees were killed by suspected IS gunmen inside a section of the camp where those who have received threats are usually sheltered, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told media.
Al-Hol is home to an estimated 62,000 people, half of whom are Iraqi nationals. Most of the camp’s residents are people who fled or surrendered during the dying days of IS’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Relatives of suspected foreign IS fighters are held in a separate high-security enclosure.
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