Iraq thanks Spain for the repatriation of women and children from the Al Hol camp

Jan. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iraq’s National Security Adviser, Qasem al Araji, thanked the Spanish government this Friday for the repatriation of two Spanish women married to jihadists and 13 other children from the Al Hol displacement camp, in northeastern Syria.

The two women who arrived in Spain during the night of Monday are Yolanda Martínez, who has four children, and Luna Fernández, who arrived in Spain with nine children, and for them the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed provisional detention communicated and no bail

“We thank the Spanish authorities for welcoming 15 women and children from the Syrian camp of Al Hol, and we renew the call to all countries to find ways to receive their nationals, to dry up the source of terrorism, and bury this hotbed of darkness”, the advisor has requested through a message on his Twitter account.

It should be remembered that the Al Hol camp, as well as the Roj camp, host some 10,000 people, many of them wives and children of jihadists. The United Nations considers both camps to be enormously dangerous places due to the presence of Islamic State sleeper cells or undercover sympathizers.

Various NGOs have been raising alarms for months about the situation in the camp, the scene of murders and attacks in the absence of adequate living conditions, and have called on countries with nationals in both places to speed up repatriations.