Father issues a desperate plea to rescue his Islamic State bride daughter and her children from Syria

An Australian father has issued a desperate plea to the government to rescue his ISIS bride daughter and her children from a Syrian camp.

Bankstown-born Mariam Dabboussy claims she was tricked into entering the war-torn country in mid-2015 by her terrorist husband Kaled Zahab, who died shortly after they arrived.

Kamalle Dabboussy has called on officials to repatriate his daughter and grandchildren, aged two, three and five, to Sydney from the disease-ridden and overflowing al-Hawl detention camp in Syria’s north-east.

‘The red cross have said it is the most dangerous place on the planet for children, they are using plastic bags for toilets,’ Mr Dabboussey told 9News.

‘My greatest fear is that she will die.’

Mr Dabboussy said the Australian Federal police knocked on his door five years ago to tell him that his daughter had been ‘coerced’ into entering the middle-eastern nation while on a family holiday to Turkey.

Her husband had been radicalised into joining the Islamic State by his older brother.

Two years ago, the United States offered to rescue coalition partner’s citizens and return them home.

However, the Morrison government has so far declined assistance, arguing the extraction mission would put Australians in danger and some of the women have been radicalised and would pose a risk to the country.

‘If you take your children into the middle of a war zone it’s very difficult for me to put our Australian soldiers and our officials at risk to go in there and extract people,’ Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said previously.

Mr Dabboussy said there has never been any indication to the Australian Government or to law enforcement that his daughter went to Syria willingly.

There are currently 19 women and 47 children, most of them aged under five, trapped in al-Hawl in grim, unsanitary conditions with limited resources.

Matt Tinker from Save The Children said youngsters in the camp were suffering through ailments.

‘There’s an Australian girl with frostbite, there’s Australian children with shrapnel wounds from the conflict, there’s Australian children with pneumonia,’ he said.

Ms Dabboussy is one of more than 60 Australians, most of them children, detained.

Her father said she is happy to undertake strict house arrest-like conditions if she is allowed home, including having her telephone monitored and regularly reporting to a police station.

Last week, the United Nations urged countries, including Australia, to take their citizens out of the war zone, with a focus on protecting children.

On February 21, the Australian Federal Police announced 42 arrest warrants had been taken out for Australian men and women who had travelled to Syria ‘for alleged offences against Australian law,’ the Guardian reports.

Source: Daily Mail