According to Annahar information, relatives of Lebanese women married to ISIS fighters and currently held in the al-Hol and Roj camps are meeting the Republic’s Grand Mufti of Lebanon, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, this afternoon to demand action to bring back their sons and daughters, amid catastrophic conditions in the camps, including severe shortages of food and water.

The file of Lebanese women detained in Al-Hol has returned to the spotlight after the camp came under the authority of the Syrian state, following battles that led to the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces, marking a qualitative shift in the trajectory of one of the most sensitive and complex files for Lebanon on both humanitarian and security levels.

For years, Al-Hol camp has symbolized compounded suffering, housing thousands of women and children linked to the families of ISIS fighters, including a number of Lebanese women whose fate remained suspended in an area outside traditional Syrian state control and under a security administration that imposed strict restrictions on movement and communication. Today, with control transferred to the Syrian state, families see this development as a window of hope, perhaps the first in a long time, despite the bleak picture left by the chaos accompanying the withdrawal of the SDF.