SNA militants kill ice cream child seller in Syria’s Sere Kaniye
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, Hamid al-Khelaif, a boy selling ice cream, lost his life two days after he was shot by militants of Turkish-backed armed opposition factions in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), northeastern Syria.
One of his family members told North Press on condition of anonymity that the 15-year-old boy passed away in one of the Turkish hospitals after he was shot by armed militants of the Thaeroon faction.
In October 2019, the Turkish forces, with the support of their affiliated factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), launched the military operation “Peace Spring” against Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad under the pretext of pushing the fighters of the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) away from the Turkish border with Syria.
As a result, they seized many areas in the abovementioned cities and displaced approximately 300,000 civilians, human rights reports said.
Two days ago, sources in the area stated that three armed militants from the Thaeroon faction beat up the ice cream seller al-Khelaif after he refused to give them free ice cream.
Al-Khelaif was taken to the Turkish hospital to receive treatment, but he passed away.
On June 30, two gunmen riding a motorcycle killed a goldsmith named Muhammad Barhawi in front of his house in al-Aibra neighborhood in Sere Kaniye, and stole a bag from him that contained money and gold.
During the recent days, hundreds of residents of the city took to street, condemning security chaos and crime prevalence in the region.