Guards have warned the next generation of ISIS is being bred within Syrian camps. (Image: Getty)
Syrian camps where Shamima Begum is held are reportedly home to families and children brainwashed to follow ISIS.
Children can be found hurling stones and screaming, while one eight-year-old warned off outsiders by drawing his hand across his neck in a throat-slitting gesture, .
CCTV also shows two young people hurling a firebomb.
Camps al-Hol and al-Roj are now thought to be breeding grounds for the next generation of ISIS as a camp official warns that the situation is getting worse. The new wave of radicalisation is reportedly coming from the mothers within the camps as an insider warns “this is not a normal camp”.
Senior camp official Rashid Omer told The Sun: “The reality is – they are not changing. This is not a normal camp – this a bomb.”
Syrian camps are running with a decreasing number of guards, it has been reported. (Image: Getty)
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He added: “They are saying it was ISIS who ‘liberated’ Damascus – and soon they will be coming here.”
“And then they want to spread to Europe, to Africa, and then to everywhere.”
A total of 60,000 people can be found across the two sites which includes ISIS fighters, families and indoctrinated children. Among the camps are thought to be at least 6,000 Westerners, including British-born Shamima Begum who is now 25.
Originally placed in al-Hol, Begum was later moved to al-Roj.
The next generation is reportedly being brainwashed into extremism, with the return of practices such as child marriages being feared to be growing again, too.
Journalist Andrew Drury who visited al-Roj camp in northeast Syria six times in a year from 2021 to 2022, previously told the that, just like the Taliban in Afghanistan, ISIS was making a comeback.
He said: “The camp is not very well protected, it’s in the middle of nowhere and the SDF and Kurds guarding it are getting very troubled because it would be easy to break into al-Roj using force.
“The Americans are almost pulled out, the Russian Wagner Group are gone from Syria, the Russians left are very limited, it feels like ISIS think it is a good time to come back, and that is what’s happening out there. It could be the next new wave.”
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Shamima Begum remains in a Syrian Camp. (Image: Getty)
After the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad, US-backed Kurds are now acting as prison officers, yet due to the skeleton crew, the guards can no longer patrol inside al-Hol.
A camp administrator of five years told The Sun: “The kids are becoming more radical – we used to send them to rehabilitation centres when they were 13.
“But there were a lot of complaints as we would separate them from their mothers.”
He added that ISIS families inside the camps “are organising”.
“They claim they are still in contact with ISIS,” he said.