Survivors of Turkish shelling in Syria’s Ain Issa in serious condition
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Two survivors of a house that was bombed by Turkey two days ago, are still in serious condition, the head of the ambulance department at the National Hospital in the city of Raqqa, northern Syria, said.
“The little girl, Sundus al-Darwish and her mother, Khitam al-Shabhar, who arrived at the hospital yesterday, were wounded by shrapnel in the head, and they were placed under observation due to the instability of their health,” he told North Press.
The one-year-old child girl, Sundus, was placed on a bed in the hospital’s department of surgery, next to her injured mother.
Yesterday at dawn, four members of the family lost their lives, and the child girl and her mother were wounded by shrapnel due to the bombing of the Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions on the family’s house in the countryside of Ain Issa.
“The Ain Issa massacre, which affected safe civilians, is not new to Turkish practices in Syria,” Yahya Mahmoud, secretary of the Raqqa branch of the Syrian National Democratic Alliance Party, said today.
“Turkey is an occupying state that practices the agendas of occupiers and killers, and it did not come to rebuild or create a healthy future for the Syrian people,” he added.
A day after the tragedy, Khitam al-Shabhar, 35, mother of Sundus, seemed unable to speak except about her children, Ziyad, Mona, Huda, and their father, who were killed in the Turkish bombing.
“What did they gain from exterminating an entire family?” she asked.
The head of the department of surgery at the hospital said that the girl “was injured by multiple shrapnel and material loss in the scalp, and her condition is unstable.”
He added that the mother also “needs to be monitored in the department.”
Since Turkey and its affiliated factions took control of the areas of Tel Abyad and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in 2019, areas in the northern countryside of Raqqa and north of Hasakah have been subjected to repeated Turkish bombardment.
Yesterday evening, the Turkish shelling on the village of Umm al-Keif in the northern countryside of Hasakah led to the injury of an elderly woman.