(3 Feb 2025)
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Hasaka, Syria – 31 January 2025
1. Various of women buying fruit from a shop inside al-Hol camp
2. Various of women in camp’s market street
3. Wide of tents inside al-Hol camp
4. Boys playing football inside the camp
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Abdullah Hammoud, displaced from Deir Ezzor in Syria:
“Blumont was responsible for everything, from sanitary, gas and heating, to food and paperwork and archive. So, we were troubled when Blumont suspended its activities in this short period. Hopefully and I wish that Blumont will be back to the camp to take care of the situation as it used to be and even better, God willing.”
5. Various of people in group prayer inside a mosque
6. Various shots of people and livestock in the camp
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dirar al-Ali, displaced from Lattakia in Syria:
“We are exhausted and believe me we didn’t have food to eat, and even the bread didn’t come until two o’clock, why is that? If you as an organization want to leave, just leave, we don’t want you, but you must bring an alternative. For example, they will replace you if you leave. Why they just withdraw and left? Because we are locked behind doors.”
8. Various of women walking in the camp
9. Group of children pose for the camera
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Israa Thabit, camp resident from al Anbar in Iraq:
“It has been six years that we live in the camp and we got tired. My man was killed in Baghuz. We are exhausted, our life is very difficult here, and we want our papers (security clearance) to go back to Iraq. We want the relief from God. A relief for us and for every oppressed, and for our prisoners in Iraq, as we also have prisoners in Iraq. They are also not members of the (Islamic) state, but they have been in prison for six years now.”
11. Various of women walking inside the camp
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihan Hanan, Director of al-Hol camp in Hasaka:
“We were surprised by the suspension of aid by various working organisations in the camp, including the managing organisation, which is the Blumont organisation, which has a huge impact in the camp. Honestly, the funding cuts and the suspension of Blumont was a shock for us.”
13. Various of women sitting on the ground
14. Children playing on ruins in the area
15. Women walking inside the camp
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihan Hanan, Director ofal-Hol camp in Hasaka:
“The aid suspension put extra burdens on us at camp management, I mean the current situation in the area does not allow us to provide the camp with services that were suspended due to funding cuts. At the end, the whole world is concerned about al-Hol camp.”
17. Children waving and running after car
18. Tracking shot of tents inside the camp
19. US military convoy passes by the camp
STORYLINE:
Ahmad Abdullah Hammoud was lucky to have some food stored to feed his family after a U.S.-funded organization abruptly suspended its activities at the sprawling tent camp in northeastern Syria where they have been forced to stay for nearly six years.
His family is among 37,000 people, mostly women and children, with alleged ties to the Islamic State group at the al-Hol camp, where the Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on foreign aid caused chaos and uncertainty and worsened the dire humanitarian conditions.
When the freeze was announced shortly after Trump took office, U.S.-funded aid programs worldwide began shutting down operations, including the organization that runs many operations at al-Hol, which works under the supervision of the U.S.-led coalition formed to fight IS.
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