MESOPOTAMIA NEWS UPDATE BAGHOUZ / SYRIA : An “unbelievable” number of people, thousands more leave Baghuz – by Seth Frantzman

— Woofers (@NotWoofers) March 6, 2019

According to reports “”Some 40,000 people bearing various nationalities have left the extremists’ diminishing territory in the last three months as the SDF sought to oust the militants from remaining pockets.”

The numbers seem to be extraordinary given the lack of planning for this number of people.

Never ending ISIS, there were more people per sq km in Baghuz than in Singapore or Manhattan…like 40,000 or something… or perhaps we’ve been systematically misled the whole time by the Coalition which has drones overhead right, and would have known this? And didn’t prepare https://t.co/p6S2nKaAXm

— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) March 6, 2019

Some have been released by the SDF in a deal with tribes.

On March 4 “About 1,600 people including 300 #ISIS members were evacuated from #Baghuz on 4 March per SOHR”

The Hawl camp has 57,000 people now.

#syria #Baghuz @IRCEurope https://t.co/KSy4WUrthM

— Sophie Scott (@SophieTScott) March 6, 2019

In the last days of February and early March; “About 15,000 people have arrived at the camp in the last week alone as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lay siege to the last vestige of Islamic State’s territorial rule at the besieged village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border.”