Mustafa and his mother fled the death in Ras al-Ain on a wheelchair
Hasakah – North-Press Agency
Jindar Abdulqader
He clings to his wheelchair, which has accompanied him for many years to find a way to escape the bombing of the Turkish aircraft that flew over his city, and bombed it without even noticing him. His mother, 60-year-old, who spent years of her thin body’s strength pushing his chair, helps him to speed up his wheels fearing of the shells and fighter jets that targeted their city on October 9.
Mustafa from al-Hawarneh neighborhood in the city of Ras al-Ain (Sere-Kaniye), born with paraplegia, he did not know that his brothers from his blood would abandon him the moment the Turkish forces bombed the city, then to find himself with his mother in the streets of the city, confused where to turn and how to get out?!
Mustafa’s mother talked about the Turkish bombardment on Ras al-Ain, by saying; “The Turkish war planes bombed the city and all the people and relatives fled and left us behind”, noting that her two other sons abandoned her and Mustafa to death and to the unknown fate.
“People who I don’t know helped us get to the garage”, Um-Ismail instinctively tried to exonerate her children, in an attempt to remove the guilt of leaving her and her son Mustafa to die, when they reached the public garage in the city, they found it unusually empty. The attackers seek to take control over the city and seize everything in the city, people, trees and stones.
With distressed eyes, Um Ismail pointed out that other people brought them to the city of Hasakah.
Um Ismail who saved her son and his wheelchair, confirmed that she saw a woman who lost her life due to the Turkish bombardment in its early hours, noting that the Turkish war planes were bombing the city violently.
Mustafa’s mother completes the details of her escape with her paralyzed son from the inevitable death in Ras al-Ain, which is being bombed by Turkey, saying: “We went to my brother’s house in the city of Hasakah, but he did not shelter us too”.
What a war, in which one is killed several times before being displaced, once by the Turkish aggression, and once by the disappointment from the sons and another by the disappointment from the brother, says Um Ismail, who found herself homeless in the streets of Hasakah.
Reporters of North-Press found Mustafa and his mother sitting in a street in the neighborhood of al-Salhia in Hasakah, they took them to our reporter’s house, to stay for days before being transferred to the school of Abdul-Ahad Musa in the neighborhood of Omran in Hasakah.
Thousands of families have been displaced from the city of Ras al-Ain, due to the Turkish aerial and ground bombardment, which is still ongoing for the second week in a row, causing hundreds of civilian casualties.
The Health and Environment Authority of the Autonomous Administration in al-Jazira region has indicated in a statement to North-Press that all the evidence indicate the use of internationally prohibited weapons in the city of Ras al Ain.
While Mustafa who has been given a new life with his mother who refused to abandon him, and the only son who has not abandoned her are still waiting to return to their home.