The Iraqi government decided June 6 to accept the return of 100 Islamic State (IS) families. The returnees are transferred to Al-Jada camp in Mosul from the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, which is home to about 30,000 Iraqi refugees.
These returnees are mostly children and adolescents who are not recognized by any state as they have no official civil status documents, which prevents them from entering schools and practicing their normal lives. Many also are mothers. Meanwhile, many Iraqi residents refuse to welcome back IS families. This has caused mutual retaliation and prevented the settlement of these families directly in their areas of origin.
