Al-Hawl refugee camp

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]

Provenance

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