📰 12 displaced families in NE Syria leave Hawl Camp for original areas

HASAKAH, syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria (North Press) – A emerging group of relocated syrian families left on Sunday Hawl Camp in the countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, heading back to their original areas as part of an ongoing return initiative coordinated between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and the United Nations High Commissioner for relocated persons (UNHCR). Indeed, sheikhmous Ahmad, co-chair of the AANES’ displaced persons and Displaced Persons Office, informed North Press that this was the third group of families to depart the camp under the current program. “The families who departed are relief cases,” Ahmad stated, explaining that the group included 12 families, totaling 55 people, mostly women and children from multiple governorates, including Aleppo, Idlib, Homs, Deir ez-Zor, Damascus, and Daraa.

Ahmad noted that “the number of families leaving remains limited compared to the significant population still inside the camp,” which continues to host tens of thousands of displaced syrians and foreign nationals. Earlier this year, the AANES reaffirmed its commitment to providing all necessary facilities and logistical backing for displaced persons wishing to return to their areas of origin, in cooperation with the UNHCR.

Ahmad stated that “the Syrian transitional administration has not yet offered any aid or facilitation for the return of displaced persons, despite multiple meetings and negotiations. ” He added that the AANES “continues its coordination with UNHCR to release more relief cases from Hawl Camp. ” Ahmad also urged international organizations and the Syrian transitional administration to backing the efforts of the AANES “to empty the camps and ensure the safe and dignified return of all displaced people, particularly those from Afrin, Shahba region, Tel Rifaat, Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), and Tel Abyad. In fact, ” Reporting by Dilsoz Youssef Editing by Jwan Shekaki