​​​​​​​ Al-Abed links ISIS attack to Turkey, reminds Damascus of its crimes in Sednaya and Palmyra prisons

 On Thursday evening, cells affiliated with ISIS mercenaries launched an attack on Ghweran prison, in which thousands of ISIS fighters are being held, by detonating a car and a booby-trapped bicycle near the main gate of the prison, accompanied by a clash between ISIS cells attacking from outside and the security forces of  the prison, while clashes continue around the prison perimeter.

 In this regard, our agency met with the Vice-President of the Joint Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Hamdan Al-Abed, who began his speech by saying, "We have mercy on our civilian and military martyrs who lost their lives during the recent events that were planned to strike the stability of North and East Syria."

 Hamdan Al-Abed added, "We have noticed in the past few days during the attack that targeted the prison that this is a criminal scheme. It was preceded by several attempts by the Turkish occupation state when the Ain Issa camp was evaded, and when it occupied Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad, it bombed the prison to escape these prisoners."

 Hamdan al-Abed stressed, "If the international community had listened to the calls made by the Autonomous Administration to the whole world and the United Nations to consider the issue of these terrorists who came from all over the world and of multiple nationalities and were arrested after the elimination of ISIS, such an attack would not have occurred."

 "We have made many calls to look into the ISIS file, because the threat of ISIS is not limited to the region only, but to the whole world. There are mercenaries of Arab and European nationalities who must be tried in accordance with international principles and laws in their countries, but only a few responded," he said.

 "The international community got rid of these terrorists, and they remained a time bomb in our areas, because Ghweran prison and al-Hol camp are the largest gathering of ISIS mercenaries in the region," al-Abed said.

 Al-Abed reiterated his calls for the establishment of "international courts in northern and eastern Syria to try these mercenaries or bring the terrorists back to their countries to get rid of their danger."

 Al-Abed pointed out, "This incident coincided with the bombing of Ain Issa and Tal Tamr district, the attack by drones, and an attack in Iraq at the same time as the attack on Ghweran prison, and they are only messages from ISIS mercenaries and its supporters with the presence of ISIS and messages to the world that ISIS still exists."

 Damascus' shameful statements

 Al-Abed said, "We regret the shameful statements of the Damascus government when he says that the SDF and the international coalition's crimes amount to war crimes," adding, "Does he not mention Sednaya prisons not mention Palmyra."

 "Doesn't he see the Turkish bombing of Afrin, Ain Issa and all the border areas during which civilians are targeted with the aim of displacing the people from their areas and occupying more areas," Al-Abed added.

 Hamdan al-Abed concluded his speech by saying, "The regions of northern and eastern Syria provided 11,000 martyrs and 25,000 wounded in defense of the whole world, not just the regions of north and east Syria."

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