While at the beginning of 2019 the camp held about 10,000 people its size increased dramatically with the collapse of ISIS.[4] By April 2019, the camp's population was estimated at 74,000.[2] An estimate in September 2019 indicated that the camp held about 20,000 women and 50,000 children from the former ISIL caliphate guarded by 400 SDF militia fighters.[4]