Syrian Kurds demand international support to establish rehabilitation centers for ISIS children
The Kurdish Autonomous Administration in Syria has called on the international community to provide support to help it establish rehabilitation centers for children of ISIS families, after removing more than thirty boys from Al-Hawl camp in northeastern Syria, according to a local official.
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned this week that hundreds of children, most of them boys, some as young as 12, are being held in adult prisons, places where they simply do not belong.
Since the announcement of the elimination of the "caliphate" of the extremist organization ISIS two years ago, the Autonomous Administration has been demanding the countries concerned to take back their nationals from members of the organization's families who are in the camps, including tens of thousands of children, or their citizens detained in prisons and camps, while their countries refrain from doing so.
The co-chair of the Department of Foreign Relations in the Autonomous Administration, Abdul Karim Omar, told AFP that thirty to 35 children over the age of 12 were taken out of Al-Hawl camp, in preparation for their transfer to a rehabilitation center in al-Hasakah that will be ready in the coming days.
He explained that the children held in detention centers, who were referred to by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday, are in their own places and not with adults.
Omar said that the Autonomous Administration intends to establish 15 to 16 similar centers, calling on the international community, which does not bear its responsibility, to provide support because their capabilities are not enough and the issue is greater than them.
The countries do not show the necessary response despite the repeated pleas of the Kurds, and the only thing is to restore them to orphaned children or in critical health conditions.