Afrin people raise resistance banners amid destruction

SHARAFEIN MUSTAFA – TOLIN HASAN

AFRIN- in Tal Shaeir village in al-Shahba canton at Afrin region, which suffered in 2016 from destruction of the huge impact of fighting between the revolutionary factions and mercenary groups, forcing the population to move to different parts of Aleppo, this semi-destructive village currently inhabited by more than 300 civilians most of them children and women from Afrin were forced to displace of their homes by the brutal bombardment of Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries.

Destroyed houses and walls are likely to fall over the heads of their residents, who have displaced for fear of a shell falling on their homes. The important thing is to shelter under a roof protects them in their fateful ordeal.

In the absence of Humanitarian Organizations, despite the fact that they are in harsh conditions, they believe in the forces that have protected them for years from mercenary groups, which only have "looting and murder" in their dictionary to bring them back to their homes, pushing them to challenge all the hard conditions and stand still .

"We were forced to leave our house and our city because the bombing of air force was shelling violently and indiscriminately. We are now living in a destroyed house, said" Alia Haj Ali, a resident of al-Ashrafia neighborhood of Afrin, who lives with four other families and her six children in a destroyed house surrounded by rubble and stones. "We have not brought with us our needs, and the situation is bad, but despite all this, we resist to return soon after the liberation of our city from mercenaries."

We do not accept the occupier, the murderers of innocent..

We will endure all life conditions and harshness here in these destroyed homes and in the absence of the needs of living stay on the ground, and will not return to our city as long as the occupiers, we will return to them after the liberation and clean our city of intruders and invaders, our lives were safe and very safe, came the occupier and destroyed everything as Akram Bakdash, who lost his right foot two years ago due to a shell near him when he was living in Aleppo, described his words. He then returned to his hometown of Afrin to complete his life there.

Bakdash notes that Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries occupied their city, stole and looted their property, and killed innocent civilians. "It is impossible to accept the occupier, the innocent murderers on our land."

We do not care if we hunger, the important to go back to our city

The insistence spirit on staying on their land and resisting all the difficult living conditions they have experienced (hunger, thirst, cold and fatigue), and the failure of humanitarian and relief organizations to support them. But the most important thing is for them to liberate their city and return to it, their eyes watching any military car for People and Women Protection Units pass before them heading towards Afrin and all of them hope to defeat Turkish occupation and mercenaries from their land.

"We came out of Afrin for fear, they bombed our houses and forced us out of our city, and now I do not care about anything to endure hunger and thirst, it's important to go back to our city after our city is cleansed of mercenaries," Amina Selo, a resident of Afrin said.

Everyone became blind to us

While Mazloum Amin Hasan, al-Ashrafia neighborhood in Afrin, who lives with his family in a room that partially surrendered in Tal Shaeir village, a father of two children, denounced international and humanitarian silence about the situation of civilians in Afrin and the suffering of civilians and displaced children, in light of the poor humanitarian situation that needs urgent relief assistance.

It should be noted that Democratic Autonomous Administration of Afrin canton with al-Shahba canton has mobilized all their energies and potentials to serve the people of Afrin, displaced in al-Shahba

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ANHA