The operation to liberate Manbij, which was started by Manbij Military Council on June 1st on a strong demand and call by people living in and around the city, continues successfully in full force.

Life is beginning to turn back to normal in the villages and hamlets that Manbij Military Council fighters are liberating one by one as they continue making further advances on the fourth day of the expansive military campaign.

Locals in the mentioned villages and hamlets describe the Manbij Military Council fighters as their own children, saying; “Our children have saved us from the ISIS gangs”.

Residents from the villages of Halûle, Til Eriş and Sikawiyê to the northwest of the Tishrin Dam, stated that ISIS gangs have fled by using the locals as human shields, and some of these gangs were neutralized by Manbij Military Council fighters while they fled.

Following the liberation of the three villages, combatants of the Manbij Military Council are making huge efforts to make sure life turns back to normal soon.

Professional units affiliated to the Council are continuing the works to clear the mines that ISIS gangs had laid in and around these villages, while fighters are trying to make these villages safer by spotting and defusing the mines placed by the gangs in the houses of civilians.

The local people, who greatly lack daily needs due to the destruction of their living areas by the gangs, are provided by fighters with their basic needs such as water and food. Health teams are on the other hand offering medical service to the locals in need.

Villagers thank the fighters for coming to their aid, saving them from the atrocity and cruelty of ISIS gangs and providing them with their vital needs under challenging conditions and weather above 50 degrees.