A car bomb attack on the autonomous security forces (Asayîşa Êzdîxanê) was carried out on the main street of Shengal at around 8.30 p.m. local time on Monday evening. According to information from the region, the vehicle loaded with explosives was observed driving through Shengal on Monday. Since the Iraqi security forces did not intervene, the car was pursued by the Asayîşa Êzdîxanê. As they approached the car, the bomb detonated. Two members of the Yazidi security forces and two civilians were injured in the explosion. Two of the injured were taken to hospital in Mosul, while the other two are being treated in Shengal.

Terror against genocide survivors

Under the pretext of "fighting the PKK", there have been increasing attacks by Turkish warplanes and drones on Shengal since 2017. Concrete targets are mostly institutions that were founded after the Islamic State genocide - such as the Democratic Autonomous Council of Shengal (MXDŞ) or the self-defence units YBŞ/YJŞ - and their representatives. The casualties are mostly civilians - often survivors of the 2014 genocide.

Most recently, on 6 October, a camp for displaced persons on the Serdeşt plateau in the Shengal Mountains was bombed. Only the area around the camp for Yazidi displaced persons was hit, but the civilian population suffered property damage. The camp has been the target of killer drones from Ankara in the past.

In September, Turkey carried out several targeted airstrikes against the YBŞ and its autonomous women's organization YJŞ, which among other things led to the devastation of a housing estate in the village of Til Ezer. At the end of August, two fighters from the resistance units were injured in a drone strike by the Turkish NATO state in Shengal.