ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday dismissed reports of repatriating Islamic State (ISIS)-linked individuals, a day after dozens of Australian nationals from an ISIS camp were put on a convoy intended to take them home.

Albanese told state media that Canberra will not provide the individuals eyeing return with “any assistance or repatriation,” arguing that “if you make your bed, you lie in it.”

“These are people who went overseas supporting Islamic State and went there to provide support for people who basically want a caliphate,” he said.

Local and international media on Monday reported that a group of 34 Australian women and children from 11 ISIS-linked families had left the notorious Roj Camp in Rojava’s (northeast Syria) Hasaka, before heading back from Damascus.

The convoy was turned around soon after with Syrian authorities telling the media that the return was due to technical issues involving the arrangements.

The camp’s Director Hakmiyeh Ibrahim stated that the repatriation was planned by relatives of the group, not by Australian authorities, the Associated Press reported.

Around 2,000 foreign ISIS families are held the camp, which was recently handed over from Kurdish authorities to the Damascus government.

ISIS detention facilities in Rojava have recently witnessed a security breach following the military operation launched by Syrian army and its affiliated factions into areas controlled by Kurdish-led forces, leading to the release of a large number of prisoners.

Syrian forces took control of al-Hol camp in January after Kurdish-led forces were forced to withdraw in the face of intense strikes.

With the increasingly unstable security situation, Kurdish and Iraqi authorities have intensified their call on the international community to repatriate their ISIS-linked nationals.