In a statement,chief executive Judy Slatyer,of the Australian Red Cross,said the organisation held"grave concerns"for children stuck in camps inside Syria.
"We can confirm that the International Committee of Red Cross has access to the Al Hawl camp in Syria and provides information on the humanitarian situation there,"she said.
The Red Cross declined to comment on what role they were playing with the Australian government.
In an added complication,the head of foreign affairs for the Kurdish administration,Abdulkarim Omar,told theSydney Morning HeraldandThe Age that they could only return children"when the Australian government contacts us".
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Then,"we will give those kids to them and any other women and kids that they request,"Dr Omar said.
"We don’t have any arrangements for returning women and kids. The countries should initiate dialogue with us.
"There is nothing we can do on our own because most of the people don’t have any documents. When they contact us,we will organise the permits to send them back and those countries can repatriate the women and kids."
Let us live a normal life,teen begs
Hoda's mother Tara Nettleton died of illness in 2015,and two of her brothers,Abdullah and Zarqawi,were killed in an airstrike in August 2017 alongside their father.
Speaking from her tent at the edge of the al-Hawl camp,she said she just wanted her 17-year-old sister Zaynab and her eight-year-old brother Hamzeh to be safe.
"I want to see my brother grow up as a normal kid,"Hoda said.
"I want to see my nieces with a happy life with good treatment. I want to see my sister give birth safely."
TheHerald andAge spoke to two other young Australian women,who are both pregnant and recently fled Baghouz,the last stronghold of Islamic State.
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Shayma Assaad,from the NSW Central Coast,is the wife of IS member Mohammed Noor Masri,and Kirsty Rosse-Emile from Melbourne,are both pregnant,and both pleading with the Morrison government to bring them home. All are Australian citizens.
The camp where the women and children are living houses 73,000 people,including 50,000 children. It is littered with human excrement and is dangerous;60 children have died there and in nearby camps since December.