Al-Hawl mini state crimes | ISIS kill two Iraqis in first crime in two months

Al-Hasakah province: SOHR activists reported that militants of ISIS cells, stationed in al-Hawl camp in al southeast al-Hasakah countryside have attacked in the early hours of Friday a reception department inside the camp and shoot fire randomly on the people which caused death of two young men from Iraqi al-Nabar neighborhood and also wounded a third person.

Later ISIS fighters have clashed with the internal security forces “Asayish at their checkpoint where several people in the camp have fled to. It is worth noting that this is the first crime in two months in the camp, last of which was on Sept, 14 and killed Iraqi female refugee.

It is worth noting that the number of murders committed in al-Hawl camp since the end of the first phase of the large-scale security campaign has reached 32, which indicates to alarming escalation of killings in the camp.

Accordingly, the number of murders documented by SOHR in al-Hawl camp since the beginning of 2021 has risen to 71, 13 murders in January, ten in February, 17 in March, one in April, six in May, six in June, six in July, eight in August and three in September. These murders have left 77 people dead, and the breakdown of fatalities in the past seven months was as follows:

• Two members of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish).
• 57 Iraqi refugees, including three children and 16 women.
• 18 Syrian people, including two children, five woman and the head of the “Syrian Council” in the camp.
• A gunman of a cell responsible for assassinations and murders in the camp, who was killed when he blew himself up with a grenade just after he had been caught by an Asayish patrol which was pursuing him.