All the Australian women and children captured after the fall of Islamic State in Syria last year have now been taken out of the squalid al-Hawl camp, with local authorities saying they have been moved to another camp | mbachelard
All the Australian women and children captured after the fall of Islamic State in Syria last year have now been taken out of thewas removed from the camp last week
Mr Dabboussy said on Tuesday the news that the 67 Australian had been moved was "bittersweet," because conditions at al-Hawl camp had been deteriorating with uncertain food and water supplies and poor medical care. Roj is said to be a better-equipped camp and better run, but it is also stricter, meaning a ban on mobile phones is more thoroughly enforced, so communications with Australian families are likely to halt entirely.
Mr Dabboussy said he had heard nothing from the Australian government in the past week, but, "I'm making the assumption that the relatively quick transfer to Roj of the Australians and the orderly removal of the second group overnight has something to do with the Australian contact with the Kurds.
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