“Between two fires” Doctors without borders warn of trouble for the children of the Al-Hol camp!

Yesterday, Médecins Sans Frontières warned of a “tragic” life for children in the Al-Hol camp in northeast Syria due to a lack of services and medical care and increased violence. The organization called on an international coalition led by Washington and the countries whose citizens are being held in the camp, run by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration, to find alternative solutions “at a time when sufficient progress has not been made to close it.” Among them are children. “We have seen and heard many tragic stories about children dying due to delays in receiving the necessary medical care, and about boys who are forcibly separated from their mothers as soon as they reach the age of 11, and nothing is known about them,” he said. Martin Fluchestra. , chief operating officer of the organization. More than 50,000 people live in the Al-Hol camp, about half of them Iraqis, including 11,000 foreigners from about 60 countries living in their own section. Camp residents do not enjoy freedom of movement, especially those living in the foreign section. “Al-Hol is effectively an open prison and most of its inhabitants are children, many of whom were born there, deprived of childhood and condemned to a life of abuse and exploitation, with no education and limited opportunities. healthcare,” Flokstra added. According to MSF, 79 children died in 2021, which indicated that children accounted for 35% of the total deaths in the camp, and some of them were killed in violent incidents, including shootings.