In its daily statement about the ongoing war in Kurdistan, the press centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) said: "The Turkish occupation army bombs the guerrilla positions and war tunnels in the Medya Defence Zones hundreds of times a day and has not achieved a single result by doing so. The guerrillas’ battle positions have also been attacked with chemical weapons and banned bombs, but their goal has not been achieved. Now, the Turkish army has committed another despicable war crime and attacked our battle position in the resistance area of Sîda in Zap with a tactical nuclear bomb, resulting in large explosions that killed our companion Şerzan Mawa. The attacks of the Turkish occupying army with tactical nuclear bombs continue."

HPG announced the ID details of the fallen guerrilla fighter as follows:

Şerzan Mawa was born in the Kozluk district of Batman and grew up in Istanbul because his family had to leave Kurdistan due to the prevailing repression. Under the impression of the ISIS massacres in Shengal and Rojava, he decided to join the armed resistance and went to the mountains in Siirt in 2015. He underwent training for new guerrilla fighters in the Zap region and then moved to the Cilo area. In 2017, he was seriously wounded in a guerrilla action and suffered another injury in an enemy attack in the Zap in 2018. Since 2021, he has fought against the Turkish invasion in the Avashin and Zap regions in both mobile units and tunnels, becoming a leading militant in the Zagros Mountains. Most recently he was in the resistance area of Sida.

As the HPG had already reported, the Turkish army launched an occupation operation on 22 June in the areas of Şikefta Birîndara, Kokerê, Saca and Karker on the eastern Zap front. On 29 June, the occupation forces started a terrain fire in the resistance areas of Şikefta Birîndara and Karker and retreated to surrounding hills. The fire is still raging, and the area is being bombed by fighter jets. In Şikefta Birîndara, the army is also using explosives against positions.

Regarding recent guerrilla actions, HPG reported that guerrillas struck the Turkish positions at Girê FM in Zap with heavy weapons on 1 and 3 July.

In Xakurke, guerrillas from YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) hit a Turkish squad at Girê Şehîd Şahan with heavy weapons on 1 July.

HPG also reported 18 airstrikes by fighter jets on 1 and 2 July in the western Zap region, as well as in Gundê Bêşîlî and Gundê Yekmalê in Metîna and Xêrê and Neqeba Meyrokê in Gare. In the past three days, HPG recorded 241 attacks with howitzers, tanks and heavy weapons in the Zap, Metîna and Xakurke regions. In Sîda, Turkish troops’ attempts to demolish guerrilla positions with construction machinery continue.