"Enough looting and destruction"

Displaced Jamal Ibrahim explained that settlers from Idlib and Ghouta and the mercenaries of Sultan Murad are seizing his house, according to news received from Afrin, and that the nature of Balbala has been destroyed and the homes and properties of the people have been looted.

23 August, 2023 01:10

AL-SHAHBA, ZAINAB SHEIKHO

The displaced Jamal Ibrahim, who comes from the Bulbul district of occupied Afrin, lives in the Berkhdan camp in al-Shahba, which is designated for the displaced from Afrin, and his only wish now is to return to Afrin, and he told us the tragedy of the mercenaries' seizure of his house.

He began his speech by saying: "The Turkish state sought to change the demography of Afrin and distance us from our culture, language and values through its occupation of it, but they will not be able to make this change even if they displaced us from Afrin and expelled the people from their homes, because the change is not in property and homes, but rather in thinking we will return and restore Everything is as it was."

He continued: "The mercenaries of the Turkish occupation state seized my house and my property and put it at the disposal of a group of settlers from Ghouta and Idlib in Afrin. I do not know much about what happened to my house and my property. All I know is that they do not allow my relatives to approach these properties. At the beginning of the occupation, they allowed my relatives." To go to the fields, but they are not allowed to do so now, and I know that they cut down a number of my trees, but this is all I know in this regard, as my relatives are afraid to talk to us.”

Jamal indicated that the entire region of Afrin had been changed, and wondered whether the people of Afrin would recognize Afrin if they returned to it, and indicated that they had turned Afrin, which was a paradise on earth, into a desert that no one could live in.

Jamal concluded his speech with certainty: "We will return to our homes, and we will rebuild Afrin again and restore it as it was with its picturesque nature."

T/ Satt.

ANHA