(Contains documented testimonies from al-Hool camp) The Syrian Observatory refutes allegations of the UNHCR and the UN in helping tens of thousands of displaced people in the swamps of the relief corruption
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights continues to monitor the reality of the humanitarian situation in al-Hool camp in the southeastern countryside of Hasaka, near the Syrian – Iraqi border, to which the wave of displacement has escalated over the last 2 months more than before, and the camp’s situation is becoming more tragic every day, as the existing material decreases and the international organizations are having enough with the media data and movements, which provide nothing of help the displaced people, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in a video tour the tragic humanitarian conditions the new and old displaced people are living in the camp, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored those in charge of the camp holding the United Nations and international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, and relief and medical organizations responsible for the significant negligence, also the displaced people confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that after contacting the United Nations to send humanitarian aid to al-Hool camp; none of the promises have been made, and the camps have not received assistance for about 15 days, also the Syrian Observatory monitored the presence of assistance within UNHCR warehouses in the camp but it has not been distributed to the displaced people, thousands of who continue to sleep out on the open within the camp, where some of them complained that they did not receive any assistance, while others received blankets, and others did not get heaters, mattresses or tents.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded testimonies of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, who managed to get out of the Organization’s pocket and reached al-Hool camp, they confirmed that nepotism and bribes are what enable the IDPs to get everything they need, where the corruption is getting worse and bigger as the number of displaced people increases, where they are forced to pay the money that remained with them in exchange for assistance that provides them a suitable form of life within the camp, whose children suffer from a lack of milk, food, and medicine, while others suffer from the lack of a family member or someone to support them, while some parties record and photograph the displaced people convincing them that humanitarian assistance will be granted to them, and after that these parties withdraw, leaving disappointment planted in the souls of these displaced people, who confirmed that the promises made to them in return for getting out of the Organization’s enclave of care and assistance were all false, and the displaced people appealed through the Syrian Observatory to provide supplies necessary for them to start the life of displacement imposed upon them after they left their areas, where they demanded the provision of tents, baby food, milk, heaters, blankets, mattresses, and kitchen tools, and the displaced people in the camp confirmed that they escaped from the organization’s enclave to receive help and a better life, but they were surprised by the bribes, nepotism, and corruption, amid the absence of the lowest necessities of life which killed at least 22 children so far in the camp and on the road to it, as a result of the cold, hunger, or the diseases they have had before leaving the enclave or on the road.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received in the last 24 hours information from several reliable sources about al-Hool camp, which continues to suffer from tragic humanitarian conditions, at a time when international bodies responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of people who remain in this camp and in other Syrian camps; start their media movements but no movement has taken place on the ground yet, as about 20 children died because of the health and inhumane conditions the displaced people are experiencing until they arrive in camps at the southeastern sector of al-Hasaka countryside, because the International parties are not providing assistance in the proper time, and because the relief organizations is acting as if they are just watchers, as if the death of Syrians has become a scene in a series or a part of a cinematic show; only vampires and cannibals enjoy it.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that in mid-April 2018, a meeting was held and included representatives of the Syria Democratic Forces and those in charge of al-Hool camp and camps in al-Hasaka countryside, with the Director of the Office of the Refugee Commissioner in Qamishli, where the reliable sources confirmed that UNHCR was informed that a military operation would be conducted east of Euphrates against two main areas, the first is in the southern countryside of al-Hasaka, and the other one is on the east bank of Euphrates River, and the representatives of SDF informed the UNHCR that the first will see a weak displacement due to the low population density in Dshisha area and its surroundings, while the second phase will see a large displacement due to the high population density, also the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the SDF and representatives of the camps located east of Euphrates suggested the establishment of a camp in al-Tayyana area at the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, but as a result the heavy pressure and bad services on the road to al-Hool camps and the countryside of al-Hasaka, and the lack of taking part in the aid by the organizations on the pretext of the difficulty of reaching the area; SDF and the camp’s management east of Euphrates turned to discuss with representatives of the international bodies of the United Nations, the Office of High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Food Program organization, WHO, UNICEF, and other parties about the issue of displaced people during the military operations.
The same sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the management and administration of the camp; proposed to these organizations the establishment of 2 reception areas for the people displaced from the enclave the “Islamic State” Organization, towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas to receive the displaced people at first, and then provide initial assistance to them and transporting them by appropriate means of transportation -such as buses- to al-Hool camps, which are also suffering from a tragic reality, as tens of thousands of civilians and members of the “Islamic State” Organizations are present in the camp in the southeastern sector of al-Hasaka countryside, near the Syrian – Iraqi border, while the Syrian Observatory monitored the rise in number of children who had died in the last two months to 20 children at least, while families told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that several newborn children had died during the transfer.
The Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the Syrian tragedy continues to recur with different forms, circulating between the Syrian areas, escalating, but remain constant, and among this series of tragedy there is a new episode took over the scene, namely al-Hool camps in the countryside of al-Hasaka Province near the Syrian-Iraqi border, and in the details Obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: al-Hool camp in the southeastern countryside of al-Hasaka city includes about 37000 displaced Syrians and refugees from Iraq, in addition to refugees of various nationalities, the majority of them are of families of members of the “Islamic State” Organization who arrived in the camp during the past months, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored until the end of August 2018 the presence of more than 40000 people including more than 30 000 Iraqis, who returned to Iraq after coordination with the Iraqi government by the democratic self-administration and the Syria Democratic Forces, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the entiry of about 36500 persons since the beginning of the military operations on the 10th of September 2018, of whom about 25000 remained inside the camp, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Right eventually counted more than 37000 IDPs (internally displaced persons) and refugees in al-Hool camp, including more than 24000 of the Iraqi nationality, and the reliable sources confirmed that many of the displaced people have returned to their areas which were controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, and some of them headed to areas of presence of their relatives in the countryside of al-Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, al-Raqqah and other areas, while the other part remained in the camp, also numbers of the Iraqi refugees returned to their country after coordination with the Iraqi government.
The Syrian Observatory has monitored since September 2018 the arrival of displaced people on board of vehicles and trucks provided by the Syria Democratic Forces to transport them to the camps, and the transfer takes place initially by transporting them to camps away from the battlefronts, while the Organization’s members are taken out of the people and transported to detention centers, while the civilians and families of ISIS members are transported to al-Hool camp in the al-Hasaka countryside, also the Syrian Observatory has counted since early December 2018 the death of 19 children including 8 Iraqis, where 9 of them died as a result of burns and fire in camps because of the use of primitive heating means, while others died as a result of poor health conditions and the lack of health care, as a result of harsh weather conditions, while the Syrian Observatory learned that the remaining 10 were children who died after getting out of the “Islamic State” Organization’s enclave at the east bank of Euphrates River, because of health conditions they suffered within the enclave and what they were suffering of different diseases and health conditions, some of them died during his transfer to the camp and others died in the camp, after the deterioration of their health due to the lack of enough medicines and medical staff to save them, after what they suffered of hunger, sickness, and inhumane conditions, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that there are many people who suffer from diseases caused by the harsh conditions they have experienced in the enclave of the last Organization, and due to lack of health care and severe shortage of medicines, food, and appropriate healthy conditions.
We at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and in the light of the tragic circumstances of tens of thousands of people in a camp at the Syrian-Iraqi border, which lacks sufficient supplies, we hold the United Nations responsible for the lives of these displaced people regardless of their nature, nationality, or personal condition, especially after the United Nations refused to establish a camp for the internally displaced people near Hajin area, after it was brought to International Coalition by interested and responsible parties, also we hold the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and all international and regional relief, medical, and humanitarian organizations responsible for the death of about 22 children, due to the great neglect towards the refugees and displaced people in al-Hool camp and in all the camps in al-Hasaka province, where the children, citizens, and the refugees need urgent assistance, as no camera lenses that convey the tragedy will prevent the bad weather, nor will it provide water or food, and we at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights convey the calls of the population and those suffering from tragic humanitarian situations to the international and active parties; for urgent action to help them effectively, not through statements and declarations the displaced and wandering people do not care about under catastrophic humanitarian conditions.
Al-Hool Camp, UN’s indifference to the tragedy puts it responsible for the lives of the displaced people
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SOHR monitors through a video and testimonies of displaced people; the corruption spread within offices of international organizations of al-Hool camp in the southeastern countryside of al-Hasakah, after the increase in number of arrivals
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A video by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show Syrian and Iraqi women of who had gotten out of the last ISIS enclave east of Euphrates, where they talk about their suffering with their relatives and the tragedy that is ravaging them, in the lite of corruption and theft by international organizations and those who are responsible for the distribute in al-Hool camp, in the southeastern countryside of al-Hasaka
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A video by the Syrian Observatory shows testimonies of displaced women from the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, after they got out with their children and families towards al-Hool camps, which is witnessing inhumane conditions and a significant failure by international organizations in providing the camp with the necessary assistance, not to mention the stealing inside the camp by those in charge of the distribution
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Testimonies from al-Hool camp in al-Hasaka countryside for families displaced from what remained for the “Islamic State” organization, about the tragic humanitarian situation and the failure of international organizations to provide services to tens of thousands of displaced people and refugees, who are present in the camp near the Syrian – Iraqi border, and about the tragedy that plagues their children, amid inhumane conditions in front of the world
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Video by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows the situations of the displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, who are present in al-Hool camp in the southeastern countryside of al-Hasakah, and who recently came out of ISIS enclave, and their severe and tragic humanitarian conditions.