ISIS still trafficking Yazidis out of al-Hol camp, Syria, local official says

Guards keep watch as Syrians wait to leave the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds relatives of alleged Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the Syrian northeastern al-Hasakeh governorate on December 10, 2020. - Al-Hol hosts more than 60,000 people, including 24,300 Syrians either captured or displaced by fighting to expel IS from their last scrap of Syrian territory almost two years ago, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

The administrator of the Snuny sub-district in the north of the Sinjar district, Khadida Jougi, said on Sunday that the trafficking of the Yazidi abductees from al-Hol camp in Syria to other destinations is still ongoing.

Jougi said, “trafficking networks are still in the process of smuggling the Yazidis from inside al-Hol camp to Idlib, where terrorist organizations such as al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham are sending them to different territories in Syria.”

He stressed, “As Yazidi activists and humanitarian organizations, we have tried several times to enter the camp looking for Yazidi women and children; it is, however, very difficult in the presence of ISIS militants who are still under the influence of extremist ideologies.”

Hussein Kuru, the head of the Yazidi Abductees Affairs office, said, “3,546 Yazidi women and children have been liberated since 2014, whereas the fate of 2,700 others is still unknown.”

It is noteworthy that ISIS invaded Yazidi territories in Sinjar in 2014, killing and kidnapping over 6000 Yazidis, including men, women, children, and elders, and pushing over 300,000 Yazidis to displace to many Regions.

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