More than 500 displaced Syrians and family members of Daesh fighters left the Al-Hol camp in the Al-Hasakah province Monday, after the green light was given by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration, a local official told AFP.

An AFP correspondent saw dozens of women in the overcrowded camp in Hasakah in northeastern Syria transporting their belongings from tents to large trucks and others feeding their children before setting off.

Some families took large amounts of poultry and sheep with them, while the Kurdish security forces searched the belongings of these families before transporting them outside the camp.

Fatima, 31, lived with her seven children in Al Hol camp for about two years.

"We are happy to leave (...) I will return to Sousse to live in my house with my husband," she told AFP.

According to the United Nations, more than 64,000 people live in this camp, including 24,300 Syrians. Most of them are inhabited by women and children.

It is the first group of displaced people to leave the camp since the Kurdish Autonomous Administration announced last month that thousands of Syrians would be allowed to return to their areas.

Monday, "515 people from 120 families, all from eastern Deir Ezzor province," left the camp, Kurdish official Sheikmos Ahmed told AFP.

The Syrian Democratic Council (the political arm of the Syrian Democratic Forces) stated that the Autonomous Administration had ensured that they would be transported to their areas.

Ahmed expected that about 10,000 Syrians would leave the camp under the new mechanism.

About 6,000 Syrians left Al-Hol camp in successive waves, often through mediations led by Arab tribal leaders, mostly in eastern Syria.

The decision of the Kurdish administration does not include the Iraqis, who make up the majority of the camp's population, which also includes thousands of foreign militant women and children from about 50 countries.

Since the fall of the so-called "caliphate" of the Islamic State in March 2019, the Kurdish authorities have called on relevant countries to take back militants and their families, or to establish an international court to try them.

Most countries, especially European countries have been reluctant to repatriate their citizens.