The orphaned children of notorious Islamic State terrorist Khaled Sharrouf could soon be granted travel documents to return to Australia. 9News
"Where there are Australians who are caught up in this situation - particularly as innocent children - we will do what I think Australians would expect us to do on their behalf."
Hoda, who is now 16, is being held in a Kurdish-controlled refugee camp with her older sister Zaynab and eight-year-old brother Hamza."I want to see my brother grow up as a normal kid," Hoda told The Sydney Morning Herald. Federal Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen said he sympathised with the children, but not with the parents who put them in their precarious position.
"What about the children? What about the people that didn't want to come here? What about the people that are stuck here and never wanted to be here in the first place?" she said.Sharrouf and his two eldest sons were killed in a US air strike on Syria in 2017.
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