The security situation in the Hol (al-Hawl) refugee and internment camp southeast of the northern Syrian city of Hesekê is highly problematic. ISIS women have formed militias to terrorize the camp's residents. Due to a lack of external support, the autonomous administration is hardly able to stop the attacks. Yet another attack in the camp claimed the life of an Iraqi refugee. Security circles announced that he had been killed by a gun with a silencer.

Hol Camp

The Hol Camp in the canton of Hesekê consists of eight areas. In the areas one, two and three there are people from Mosul who fled from the ISIS in 2014. Area four houses Syrian internally displaced persons. In areas five, six and seven, ISIS jihadists and their relatives are detained, and the families of foreign jihadists are held in the area called "Muhajarad" (Emigrants).

Currently, more than 65,000 people are accommodated in the Hol Camp, including about 30,000 ISIS members from fifty different countries. The tent city was built by the UNHCR for Iraqi refugees at the beginning of 1991 during the Second Gulf War. After being closed for a while, the camp was reopened during the Iraq war in 2003. Since the dismantling of the ISIS’ territorial rule in March 2019, it has been used mainly to house women and children who previously lived in areas under ISIS control.

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has long demanded that foreign nationals be returned to their countries of origin.