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COVID: Syrian Facilities Holding IS Prisoners Receive Needed Supplies

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   U.S.-led coalition forces delivered much-needed medical and sanitation
   supplies to detention facilities in Syria holding 10,000 Islamic State
   prisoners, the coalition said Sunday.

   "Given the circumstances, staff at the detention facilities face an
   almost impossible task of applying precautionary measures to counter
   COVID-19," a statement from the joint taskforce read Sunday.

   The supplies will support the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces who
   are holding the captured IS fighters.

   "The supplies given to the SDF will help protect the guards at the
   facilities, who detain thousands of foreign terrorist fighters, which
   is one step of a larger plan to ensure guards and detainees are at a
   minimum risk of contracting the virus," it went on.

     Officials w/the US-backed [1]#SDF keep saying they need more
     supplies to battle [2]#COVID19 & to keep abt 10,000 [3]#ISIS
     prisoners in check[4]@CJTFOIR now says more supplies were
     successfully delivered during the week of April 13
     [5]https://t.co/eAK69xhxi4 [6]pic.twitter.com/KDAPF3HyIF
     -- Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) [7]April 26, 2020

   The supplies included soap, disinfectant, cloth masks, and gloves.

   Already, the U.S. has sent $1.2 million in medical supplies and other
   assistance to the SDF, hoping that will help mitigate the spread of the
   virus and also reinforce security at a series of prisons holding
   thousands captured IS fighters.
   

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