This submission is an update to our submission for the 88th pre-session, submitted in November 2020, and includes information on the repatriation and reintegration of children from northeast Syria, the situation of children living in “temporary accommodation” in the UK, and child poverty.
On Jan. 20, 2021, groups affiliated with ISIS attacked al-Sina Prison in the southern part of the city of al-Hasakah, in Syria’s far northeast. The attack, which lasted for nearly nine days, ended with the killing of dozens of ISIS fighters and detainees inside the prison, in addition to approximately 140 members of the SDF and its prison guards.