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Turkish-occupied Afrin: Old woman killed, man wounded in SNA faction crossfire, SNA cuts down more olive trees
[NPASyria] On Saturday, an old woman from the city of Afrin north of Aleppo, northwest Syria, was rubbed out and a man was maimed during a quarrel in which machineguns were used.

Local sources in Afrin told North Press that at about 08:00 pm yesterday the 70-year-old Qadriya Abdurrahman, a resident of Afrin, lost her life after being shot at while she was standing in front of her son’s house in Maarate neighborhood in Afrin.

The sources added that Abdurrahman succumbed to injuries she sustained before arriving at al-Shefaa Hospital.

Social media activists said that the old woman was directly shot at by unknown people, while others denied the news and said that she was hit with stray bullets.

Hours before the incident, a man, who hails from Deir ez-Zor, was maimed during a quarrel between individuals, some of them operated for Hamza Division and some operated for Jaish al- Sharqiyah, Ottoman Turkish-backed factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), in Ashrafiyeh neighborhood.

The clashing individuals used light machineguns, spreading panic and terror among residents of the neighborhood.

Afrin has been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) since March 2018 following the so-called "Olive Branch" military operation to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting "Ottoman Turkish national security."

The operation caused the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.

Afrin and its countryside continue to undergo security chaos, killing and wounding dozens of people, in addition to the increasing numbers of human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
 violations against civilians.

Turkish-backed SNA faction cuts 30 olive trees in Syria’s Afrin

[NPASyria] Militants of a Turkish-backed faction of the Syrian National Army (SNA) cut a number of olive trees that are situated close to a checkpoint in Rajo region in the countryside of Afrin, northwest Syria.

Local sources in the region told North Press that militants of Sultan Murad faction cut down about 30 olive trees in the vicinity of one of their checkpoints on a route links between the village of Haj Khalil and Rajo in northwestern Afrin.

The sources added that the militants justified their practice that they wanted to expand the checkpoint, and this is the third time they cut trees near the checkpoint under the same pretext.

In May, Sultan Suleiman Shah Division (Amshat) of the SNA cut down 50 olive trees from three fields north and northwestern the village of Mestkan affiliated with Sheikh al-Hadidi, which is the division’s stronghold.

Militants of the division also cut down three long-lived nut trees, and when residents of the village expressed anger and rejection, the militants expelled them by force, threatening them with killing.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-06-06
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