Mijdar Osse, child from Syria’s Kobani hit by Turkish bullets while playing
Mijdar Osse lying at Kobani Hospital – North Press
KOBANI, Syria (North Press) – On a bed in the Kobani Hospital, north Syria, Mijdar groans of pain incurred from a bullet hit her two days ago while she was playing with her friends.
Mijdar Osse, 10, had no idea that her playing in the Kaniya Kurdan neighborhood in eastern Kobani city was engulfed in danger. She was made a target for Turkish border guards who may have another target instead. Whatever the case, their bullets hit an innocent child.
On November 27, Mijdar was taken to the hospital after being hit by Turkish border guards bullets through the pelvis.
Muhammad Osse, 34, father of Mijdar, says his daughter asked him to play in nearby and got his okay.
As he was sipping tea in front of his house with his neighbors, a gunshot resounded from the Turkish side of the border. At first, it made no difference since such cases have become everyday occurrences in Kobani. His house is located close to a military post held by Syrian government soldiers.
However, children’s scream and the pulse of his heart signaled a bad omen may have happened to his daughter who a while ago had gone to play with her friends.
Hurriedly, Muhammad went to the spot where 20 children were assumed playing. Mijdar was lying on the ground. Osse had never imagined to face such harsh a reality one day.
The father took his daughter to the hospital.
Mijdar was not the sole victim of the Turkish attacks, as on August 16, a child was killed and four others were injured in a Turkish shelling of Kobani and its countryside.
On January 8, four-year-old Abdo Hanifi had his leg amputated by a Turkish shelling against the village of Qara Mogh in east of Kobani city.
Back in Kobani Hospital, Osse the father is perturbed by fears. His daughter underwent an operation that did not last long.
“Mijdar is well. She is stable right now,” doctors said.
Osse the father says more than 50 bullets were fired by Turkish soldiers positioned on the “Atmank” Hill on the Turkish soil upon children who were playing close to his house. He wonders “For what this hatred?”
According to Ghassan Rammo, a nurse serving in the hospital, the condition of Osse is a stable one after she had an operation noting she would remain in the hospital for few days to recover properly.
Angrily Osse the father says “What does Turkey want, what did this child had done to Turkey. Turkey wants to shell, kill and deport civilians.”
Osse says the live ammunition of Turkish border guards directly fired at children. Those fled could be saved, my daughter was not luck enough to do so.”
Nearly 2.8 million Syrian children face displacement and dropping off from schools, owing to hostilities, according to a UN report.
Since November 20, all areas on the border line with Turkey in general and those in Kobani in particular are undergoing violent sporadic shelling claiming lives and causing wide spread damage to vital facilities and infrastructure.
Shelling on the countryside of Kobani precludes parents to send their kids to the school citing shelling could occur at any moment.