Al-Hawl refugee camp
Humanitarian Camps
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedThe al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp [1] ) is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria , close to the Syria-Iraq border , which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant . [2] It is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
- How many affectedAffected persons: 100,000
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
The al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp [1] ) is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria , close to the Syria-Iraq border , which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant . [2] It is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). As of April 2019, the camp's population was 74,000 [3] having grown from 10,000 at the beginning of the year after the SDF took the last of the Islamic State's territory in Syria in the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani . [4] The refugees are women and children from many countries, primarily Syria and Iraq . [5] While at the beginning of 2019 the camp held about 10,000 people its size increased dramatically with the collapse of ISIS. [4] By April 2019, the camp's population was estimated at 74,000. [3] An estimate in September 2019 indicated that the camp held about 20,000 women and 50,000 children from the former Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) guarded by 400 SDF militia fighters. [4]
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 100,000 retained at 2021-01-22
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
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Provenance
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