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Rola Al-Khatib, an Al Arabiya reporter, attacked by Daesh children

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Children in a Syrian refugee camp housing Daesh families attempted to attack a television journalist because he was an "unbeliever." Rola Al-Khatib, a reporter for the Arabic networks Al-Hadath and Al-Arabiya, approached the children in the Al-Hawl camp in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria.

The children shouted insults at the reporter, calling her non-believer, and pelted her and her camera crew with stones, according to footage released by Al-Hadath on Saturday.

Al-Khatib, a Lebanese journalist based in Dubai, was reporting on the increasingly lawless camp, which houses 60,000 people. The majority of them are women and children.

She approached the children when she saw them, but they declined to talk to her.

“I'm not carrying a gun or anything. All I want to do is speak to you. Why do you call me a non-believer?” Al-Khatib inquired. One of them said, "Before we speak to you, you should wear hijab."

“What you're wearing isn't a hijab, it's not this color, and it's certainly not black.”

When she asked what they would do if they were in this position as adults, they instantly responded, "We will kill you, we have planned killings for nonbelievers."

According to Al-Khatib, the camp houses children from 60 different countries who are being raised with extremist views, according to the MBC Egypt show Al-Hekaya with Amr Adib.

She said that although Daesh had been militarily defeated in Syria and Iraq, the ideology remains. Al-Hawl, according to scholars, has been a breeding ground for extremism.

It is mostly populated by migrant families of Daesh fighters who were defeated during the group's final battles. Hundreds of people have been killed at the camp operated by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces this year.

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