80 Refugees Killed in US-Backed SDF-Occupied Camp in Hasaka

Media activists reported that only in the last 24 hours, 7 children and 2 women have died for the lack of medical and treatment possibilities in al-Hawl refugee camp in Southeastern Hasaka.

They added that nearly 14,000 families, consisting of 47,000 people, are living in the camp under an acute shortage of food, drugs and hygiene aids, warning that the children are in critical conditions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that 73 Syrian refugees have died in al-Hawl camp in the past few months, adding that two third of them are children.

At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died over the past eight weeks, mainly from hypothermia, while travelling to the camp or shortly after arrival, the WHO said in a statement early February.

It said about 23,000 people, mainly women and children fleeing hostilities in rural areas of neighboring Deir Ezzur, had reached the camp over that period.

Displaced Syrian people sheltering in al-Hawl camp earlier this month staged massive rallies over the death of tens of children.

Field sources from Hasaka province reported that the rallies were held to protest at SDF's incapability to supply the needs of the displaced community sheltered in the camp.

The camp population are suffering lack of basic needs and commodities, hygiene and cold which have led to the death of at least 36 children so far, the locals said.

Source:FarsNews