4/13/2019

AL- 'HOL CAMP' ; ALL TRAGEDIES


MALNOURISHED students/children struck down by chronic diarrhea, mother's too weak to breastfeed - in north eastern Syria's AL-Hol camp, a humanitarian emergency is unfolding.

Arabic, French, German and English voices fill the air in the muddy alleyways, as foreign women who married into Daesh and civilians displaced by the fighting against terrorists seek out assistance.

But while much divides the two groups, one thing unites them; they despair over the camp's lack of food and medical care.

''It is a tragic life,'' said Najwa Ali Jolane, a young Syrian mother who has lived at AL-Hol for three and a half months.

''We lack everything,'' the 20-year old said.

Flapping in the sprintime breeze, while tents embossed with the UN refugee agency's acronym  UNHCR stretch as far as the eye can see.

But the threadbare structures cannot cope with the flood of women and children who in recent months have fled a string flattened villages in eastern Syria, including Baghouz, where Daesh's so-called caliphate was declared defeated on Saturday.

The most fortunate families in Al-Hol have their own tents, while the unlucky ones shelter with  dozens of others in warehouses.

''There are 10,000 people living in large communal  tents which lack privacy,'' said Paul Donohue, from the International Rescue Committee. An extra 5,000 tents are needed to house people, he said.

The flood of arrivals in AI-Hol has transformed the camp into a chaotic town. It brims with more than 70,000 people, but was only designed to accommodate only a seventh of that number.

Kurdish authorities have raised the alarm and called on the international community to step up and help.

In front of a World Food Programme warehouse, huge lines of women - all dressed dressed in full black niqab - stand in the mud, awaiting rations that the UN agency says are enough for a month.

Some in the line refuse to speak to journalists, but others - Jolane included - take the opportunity to rail against their misfortune.

''On days when it rains, our tent is flooded with water, so we have to move to a neighbors' tents,'' said the former resident of Hajjin, a village near Baghouz that was flattened by fighting in December. [Agencies]

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