An air attack was carried out against the Martyr Rustem Cudi Refugee Camp in Maxmur on Friday. A woman named Ayşe Muhammed Ahmed (50) was injured in the bombing.

While the air activity over Maxmur continued, people gathered in front of the hospital.

A delegation of Iraqi officials arrived at the scene to investigate.

The Turkish state bombed a mosque in the Maxmur camp on 7 October. A couple and their two children were injured.

Background

Maxmur Camp is home to about 12,000 people with official UN refugee status. These are people who were displaced from their villages in Turkish territory thirty years ago and their descendants. Members of almost every family have died in the Kurdish liberation struggle, and many are still fighting with the guerrillas in the mountains for a dignified and free life with their own identity.

The camp, which is officially under the protection of the UNHCR, is described by Turkey as a "hotbed of terror" and has been continuously attacked by drones for years. The Barzani family, which collaborates with the Turkish state, imposed an embargo on the camp in 2019. Only a few years earlier, KDP chairman Massoud Barzani had visited Maxmur to thank the residents and the PKK for their successful efforts in defending Kurdistan against ISIS. In 2014, the ISIS hordes were just outside Hewlêr (Erbil), the seat of government of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.