Clashes between government forces, NDF wound 7 in Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Seven individuals, including a woman and two children, were wounded on Wednesday as a result of clashes between the Syrian government forces and their affiliated National Defense Forces (NDF) militia inside the government-held neighborhoods in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria.
A source in the Hikma Hospital in Hasakah, who preferred to stay anonymous, told North Press they “had received three wounded in the emergency section since Wednesday morning.”
According to the source, a nurse from the same hospital was shot by a stray bullet coming from the government-held neighborhoods in Hasakah. A seven-year-old boy was shot in his thigh and a man in his head, who is currently in the intensive care unit.
Heavy clashes erupted on Wednesday at dawn between the Syrian government forces and their affiliated NDF militia inside the government-held neighborhoods in Hasakah.
In mid-August, Hasakah Governorate witnessed security tension after Hamo physically assaulted Sheikh Abdul Aziz Muhammad al-Meslet, a leader in the Jubur tribe, and his nephew, enraging the tribe’s members who later took to the streets in Hasakah demanding the government hand over Hamo.
A doctor in the emergency section in al-Rajaa Hospital in Hasakah told North Press they received four people shot by stray bullets.
The doctor revealed the names of the wounded who received shrapnel of stray bullets, Nour Younes, 25; her daughter Hanin Younes, 5, was injured in the thigh; Othman Oda, 50, was injured in the shoulder and currently in the ICU; and Abdullah al-Mandil, 31, was injured in the leg and currently he is undergoing a surgery.
A local source said the government forces are deploying their forces in the government-held neighborhoods, which portends a military escalation and expansion of clashes between the two parties.