Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Near Ahmad’s house, an IS slogan, “The Islamic Caliphate is coming, God willing,” is graffitied on the wall of a dilapidated building.
“Now, I have to face people, and many of the people in this society have been hurt by ,” Ahmad said. “Of course, it was not only the organization that did so. We, the people who live in Syria, have been hurt by the Free Syrian Army, the regime, and IS, right? But they don’t say that.”She says the neighborhood bakery sometimes refuses to give her bread.
Conditions are dire. Kurdish-led authorities and activists blame IS sleeper cells for surging violence within the camp, includingin November. Ahmad says life in al-Hol was similar to life under IS, “except you’re fenced in.” Despite all this, Ahlam Abdulla, another woman released from al-Hol, says life in the camp was better than in her hometown of Raqqa.
Saeed al-Borsan, an elder of the al-Walda tribe, says that reintegrating women and children from al-Hol has been a huge challenge, both because of a lack of job opportunities and because residents struggle to accept them. Tribe elders like al-Borsan have been trying to help women find housing and livelihoods.
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