ISIS-linked families try to capture guards at Syria refugee camp

A child was killed and a number of women injured in Syria’s al-Hol refugee camp after residents there allegedly tried to lure camp guards in an attempt to capture them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday (February 7).

Kurdish sources confirmed to the war monitor there was an attempt to kidnap female guards at the camp.

Sources cited by SOHR said families affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the section set aside for foreign women (al-Muhajirat) called for camp guards claiming a fire had broken out.

The guards opened fire when they came under attack and a ten-year-old child was killed. Six women were also injured, some severely.

Two nurses were killed in al-Hol in January. The Kurdish Red Crescent said Basim Mihemed, a nurse, was killed on January 11 by ISIS gangs at one of their stations in the camp.

The SOHR said there were four murders in al-Hol in January and that 89 people were killed in the camp in 2021, including two members of Internal Security Forces (ISF).

Rojava Information Center said on January 19 that al-Hol camp hosted 56,552 people, including 29,428 Iraqis, 18,870 Syrians and 8,254 people from other countries.

Source: nrttv