Gerîla TV published footage of an action carried out by guerrillas from YJA Star (Free Women's Troops) against a Turkish military post in the Xantûr area in the region of Heftanîn in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on 22 October.

The press center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) said about the action on 22 October 2023: “On 22 October at 12:00 p.m., the invasion troops were fired upon with heavy weapons at Girê Şehîd Berxwedan in the Xantûr area. In this action, four soldiers were killed and a post and a surveillance camera were destroyed. This action was carried out by the forces of YJA Star.”

The action took place in memory of Bêrîtan Hêvî (Gülnaz Karataş). She fell as a martyr on 25 October 1992. The freedom fighter was surrounded by pro-Turkish KDP Peshmerga and refused to surrender. Instead, she resisted to the last cartridge, destroyed her weapon so that it would not fall into enemy hands, and threw herself from a rock to avoid being captured. She became a symbol of the women's army that was founded afterwards.