Family jumps from building to flee from SNA militants in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Members of a family sustained on Saturday severe injuries while attempting to escape from a group affiliated with the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), after the latter raided their house in the city of Afrin, northwestern Syria.
The Human Rights Organization – Afrin, which is active in the northern countryside of Aleppo, said on its official account on Facebook that an armed group affiliated with Ahrar al-Sharqiya attacked the house of Ahmad Suleiman in the al-Mahmoudiyah neighborhood, forcing Suleiman with his wife and mother to jump from the second floor of their residential building to the street.
The organization explained that Suleiman noticed an electric wire stretched from the house of a militant of Ahrar al-Sharqiya to his house in order to steal electricity, so he cut the wire. The militant attacked Suleiman’s house with an armed group.
“As a result of great fear,” Suleiman and his wife and mother jumped from the second floor to the street, the organization added. They were taken to the Syrian Hospital in the city and are in “critical health condition.”
“Suleiman was forcibly deported from Turkey three months ago and has been married for a month,” the organization noted.
The Kurdish region of Afrin has been under the occupation of Turkey and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), since 2018 following a military operation dubbed “Olive Branch” against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving “Turkey’s 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.