The arrival of new wave of displaced people to the camp of Qana south of the city of Hasaka after Islamic State announced its intention to recruit young people in its areas of control, amid fears of displaced people being harmed by the remnants of primitive crude oil refineries circulating the camp near southern Khabour lake.
Activist Mohammad al-Khodr told Zaman al-Wasl, “the number of displaced people arriving at the Qana camp in the area of Arysha has increased significantly recently as a result of ISIS intention to recruit young men in its areas of control and to launch a campaign of arrests of young people, And the holding of meetings for the people in the areas of Mayadeen, Qouriya, al-Ashara, Tijanah and Sabikhan in Deir Al-Zour eastern countryside.”
He added that the camp administration surrounded the tents with earthworks. These tents are home to some 5,000 displaced people, mostly from Deir al-Zour and the southern countryside of Hasaka .Qana camp administration also made some modifications to the camp's land to remove the remnants of oil burners from the camp. However, some of the remants of primitively refined crude oil were used in the earthworks to surround the camp which concerned the camp residents of harmful substances.
Al-Khodr confirmed that the militants of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) prevented a man from escorting his wife's body to Hasakah after her death in the camp without knowing the cause of death, while allowing her four children to accompany the body.
Al-Khodr explained that camp residents are trying to escape from the camp at night in agreement with the guards and brokers of security and military leaders in the area controlled by (PYD) since February 2016. He pointed out that between 30 and 40 people flee daily for a fee amounting to 400 $ per person.
A spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Angie Sedki, told Agence France-Presse about the camp, which was set up last June, "the Arysha camp in Hasaka province is located in an old oil refinery and you see people who play with the toxic remains and drink toxic water and bathe in it. "
