Albanian children are repatriated from Syria

The journalist Muhamed Veliu and Edi Rama

 In an exclusive interview with journalist Muhamed Veliu, shortly before leaving for Lebanon, Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke about the first part of the operation to bring to Albania the children and women who are in the Al Hol camp in Syria.

"We are in the phase of a complex operation assisted by our field forces and other forces. Meanwhile, the operation is divided into two phases, as endless secret negotiations have taken place and in this first phase that is being implemented, we hope that with God's help we will have four children and one mother injured in difficult health conditions. Meanwhile for the other children to do the second phase. I wish and hope that we will be able to bring back home the children. We are prepared with accommodation and psychologists. Then with God's help bring others. At the moment I am not talking more. We have nothing more to say. You know how complex the situation is. It is an operation that would take a novel with several volumes to write", said Rama.

The Prime Minister stated that four children and a woman will be the first to be brought home. The operation will continue in several stages to attract all women and their children.

For two years, they have been held in the Al Holi camp, a Kurdish-controlled camp that was a key factor in the fight against ISIS on the ground. The women of former Albanian fighters who joined the terrorist state of ISIS remain on the streets and their story became known because of the story of Alvin Berisha.

Meanwhile, after a few hours were brought to Beirut from the Al Hol camp in Syria Floresha Rasha and her children Amar Rasha, Emel Rasha, and Hatixhe Rasha.

Edi Rama and the children brought from Al Hol camp to Beirut

Prime Minister Rama and Interior Minister Sander Lleshaj spoke after arriving in Lebanon, showing the process. On the release of the children from the "Hell" camp, Rama said that he has always been with a frozen heart, while the merits are for the Albanian consul in Lebanon and the envoys of the Ministry of Interior.

"I am relieved because this was a complicated operation, I am glad that we succeeded, I also contacted the leaders of the operation and the general who has a lot of merit in this process. I also thank the director of the counter-terrorism who for 30 days has made continuous efforts, as well as the consul here for the connections that are not so easy, because in this process there were many factors. Together with the children, we will now return to Tirana. We have set up the necessary network to handle them more carefully.

The mother of young children is in a difficult situation, she has wounds on her body, but she will come with us. It is important that this operation paves the way for the next stage. Now we are waiting for the last signal to get the others", Rama said for the journalist Veliu.

On the other hand, Interior Minister Sander Lleshaj said from Beirut that the Al Holit camp should be called the Hell camp.