QAMISHLI, Syria —
Syria’s Kurdish authorities have recovered the bodies of two Egyptian girls
dumped in sewage at the notorious Al-Hol detention camp, local security
personnel said on Tuesday.
اضافة اعلان
“The bodies of two Egyptian girls were found in the
sewage waters” at Al-Hol a day earlier, a Kurdish security source told AFP,
requesting anonymity.
The British-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria, said the girls had
been killed with a sharp object, adding that Kurdish security forces had
transferred their bodies to a hospital for investigation.
The overcrowded camp in northeast Syria is home to
more than 50,000 people, including relatives of suspected terrorists, as well
as displaced Syrians, and Iraqi refugees.
Administered by semi-autonomous Kurdish forces,
Al-Hol is known for rampant violence.
It is the largest camp for displaced people who fled
after Kurdish forces, backed by a US-led coalition, dislodged Daesh fighters
from the last scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.
The
International Rescue Committee (IRC) said it was
“horrified” at the girls’ killing.
“This latest incident involving the deaths of
children in the camp highlights the urgent need for longer-term solutions for
children in Al-Hol,” said Tanya Evans, IRC’s country director in Syria.
Earlier this month,
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) compared the fate of the thousands of children living in Al-Hol to being in “a
giant open-air prison”.
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