Aid organisation Save the Children is warning that Australians still living in refugee camps inSyria might become the targets of ISIS supporters, due to the attention the evacuation of 8 Australian children, relatives of ISIS fighters, from the al-Hawl camp.
Around 50 Australian women and children remain in refugee camps in Syria.
Save the Children has been aware for some time of reports of I-S loyalists in the camps threatening to kill people in their sleep if they deem them "traitors".
"Many of the women for example in the camps are really worried about the security of their families and are keeping watch," says Mat Tinkler, Policy Director at Save the Children.
The aid agency worries that the publicity from the recent extraction of 8 Australian children from the al-Hawl camp in northern Syria has made the remaining Australians still in the camps a target for ISIS supporters.
"The risks and the intimidation is not necessarily new. It's been occurring for some period in the camps. But we think and we have heard that the fact there has been attention on Australians in particular could heighten those risks," said Mr. Tinkler.
The organization stresses that the Australian government needs to move fast and move all Australians far from the camps.
