00:01After years as one of Syria's most complex and dangerous humanitarian and security files,
00:08Al-Hol camp has shut its doors for good.
00:11The closure came after the departure of the final convoy,
00:14which included 17 families, among them women and children,
00:19who were returned to their original areas in Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez-Zor.
00:26Following the defeat of ISIS in 2019, the camp housed nearly 73,000 people,
00:32the majority of them women and children, including Syrians, Iraqis and thousands of foreign nationals.
00:39Over the years, as some countries repatriated their citizens
00:43and successive humanitarian convoys were organised,
00:47the population gradually declined until the camp was fully closed this week.
00:53Yet Al-Hol's story did not begin in a single phase.
00:58The camp was first established in 1991 and reopened multiple times before becoming,
01:05during ISIS rule, a base for the families of its fighters
01:08and later a de facto detention centre after control was regained.
01:15Today, the camp is officially closed.
01:18But the real challenge now lies beyond its fences,
01:21reintegrating returnees and ensuring their long-term stability.
01:26We'll see.
01:27We'll see.
01:30We'll see.
01:32We'll see, we'll see.
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