CANBERRA, Australia, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has ruled out risking Australian lives, to bring the children of Daesh fighters, stranded in Syria, back to Australia.
Responding to reports that three children of Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian, who left the country in 2013, to fight for the Daesh in Syria, have been found stranded in a Syrian refugee camp. Morrison said, any operation to return the children to their family would be too risky.
“I’m not going to put one Australian life at risk, to try and extract people from these dangerous situations,” he said.
“I think it’s appalling that Australians have gone and fought against our values and our way of life and peace-loving countries of the world, in joining the Daesh fight.
“I think it’s even more despicable that they put their children in the middle of it.”
Sharrouf’s wife, Tara Nettleton, joined her husband in Syria with their five children in 2014. She died of medical complications in 2015.
Of their children, only three, 17-year-old Zaynab, 16-year-old Hoda and eight-year-old Humzeh, have survived.
Their grandmother, Karen Nettleton, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that she was particularly concerned for Zaynab’s well-being.
“Zaynab is seven-and-a half months pregnant; she’s feeling very fatigued,” she said.– NNN- AGENCIES
