{"id":37744,"date":"2019-08-21T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=37744"},"modified":"2019-08-21T09:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:46:49","slug":"Afrini IDP family tell story of being under Turkish bombardment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/37744\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrini IDP family tell story of being under Turkish bombardment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Northern Aleppo countryside &#8211; North-Press Agency<\/font><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Dejla Khalil&nbsp;<\/font><\/b><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">A photo of a 90-year-old man was carrying his one-year-old grandson amid the dust of the shelling on his house in Afrin countryside, while hiding with his family who were injured, has inspired many artists to paint their suffering.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Barakat&#8217;s family is one of those forcibly displaced families from their home due to the recent heavy shelling on the village since the 8th of this month.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Mohammed Barakat the old man lives with his daughter-in-law and his grandson&#8217;s family in the village of &#8220;Soganaka&#8221; in Afrin countryside, which is the dividing line between the areas controlled by the Turkish army and its armed opposition affiliates in the village of Kemar on one hand, and the Syrian government forces in Soganaka on the other.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Mohammed did not realize that the morning of the 8th of this month will be the beginning of his displacement journey when an artillery shell targeted his house, wounding four members of his family by shrapnel.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Muhammad took refuge in the village of Aqiba, about one kilometer from his village, to find himself in a small room after a long search which took days to find a shelter.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">Mohammed told North-Press about the details of that day:<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">&#8220;We used to hear the sounds of permanent shelling on the village, but I did not expect that this time the shelling will target my house, my family was terribly panic, we tried to get out to a cave near the village, but we were forced to stay inside the house because of the heavy shelling.&#8221;<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"georgia\" color=\"#000000\">He added: &#8220;The shell fell on the center of the salon, which penetrated the roof above us and caused the collapse of the wall next to us, all the members of my family were injured by shrapnel as a result of the fall of the ceiling and the collapse of the wall,&#8221; 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