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• HPG: Turkish army launched a new occupation operation in guerrilla areas 

  The Turkish army has intensified its attacks against guerrilla areas in northern Iraq, reported the HPG on Friday.
• Vigil in Maxmur Refugee Camp to demand freedom for Öcalan 

  A vigil has been launched in Maxmur Refugee Camp to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Turkish warplanes bombed Zap, Avaşîn and Metîna  

  Zap, Avaşîn and Metîna have been bombarded by warplanes since 8.44pm local time. It was learned that the Girê Cûdî Resistance Area in the Martyr Delîl West Zap region was bombed 34 times.
• YJA Star guerrilla buried in Elazığ 

  The German-born guerrilla fighter Sibel Çelik was martyred in Şırnak in January. Due to a mix-up, her body was initially buried in Van, exhumed on Wednesday and re-buried today.
• Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er enter 64th day of hunger strike 

  The hunger strike launched by Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er in Hewler prison continues on its 64th day as their demands have still not been met.
• 13 Kurdish parties except the KDP form an electoral alliance in South Kurdistan 

  The alliance seeks for the Kurds to win the local election to take place in the disputed territories of southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• PADÊ: Shengal was liberated thanks to YPG-YPJ fighters and the guerrillas 

  The Yazidi Freedom and Democracy Party (PADÊ) released a statement marking the 11th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution which began 11 years ago, on 19 July 2012, when three predominantly Kurdish-inhabited areas of Syria declared their autonomy from the
• HPG reports continued Turkish attacks and guerrilla actions 

  While the Turkish army continues its attacks on the Medya Defense Zones, guerrillas continue their actions against the occupation forces in response.
• Commission established for Dağ and Er 

  A commission was established to meet the demands of Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er, who had been on hunger strike for 62 days.
• Ten sealed-off villages in Hizan threatened with depopulation 

  The Turkish army is deliberately destroying cultivated areas and irrigation channels in ten villages in Hizan district of Bitlis, and the region is being bombed amidst an ongoing military operation in the region.
• Young man from Rojava killed by Turkish forces in northern Iraq 

  The invading Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks in various parts of Kurdistan.
• Turkish drone crashes in Raparin countryside 

  A Turkish drone crashed in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• Turkish army bombs rural areas in Hizan 

  The Turkish army is carrying out aerial attacks on rural areas in Hizan, which were declared a temporary special security zone as part of a military operation against the guerrillas.
• Remains of HPG guerrilla retrieved by his family after 30 years 

  Remains of HPG guerrilla Hamit İlbaş, who fell a martyr in Şırnak countryside in 1994, were retrieved by his family and buried after 30 years.
• HPG reports another Turkish attack with tactical nuclear bomb 

  According to the HPG, the Turkish army has carried out 261 artillery attacks and 10 air strikes on guerrilla positions in southern Kurdistan in the past two days and a tactical nuclear bomb was used again in Sîda.
• Numerous areas in Bitlis and Şırnak declared special security zones 

  Numerous regions in the northern Kurdish provinces of Bitlis and Şırnak have been declared temporary special security zones. The process is related to military operations against the guerrillas and also includes curfews.
• Turkish warplanes bomb a village in Amêdiyê 

  Warplanes bombed a village in Amêdiyê. A fire broke out in the field.
• Footage of Turkish tactical nuclear bomb attack in guerrilla areas 

  ANF had access to footage of a Turkish attack on guerrilla positions in Zap on 13 July, in which a tactical nuclear bomb was used.
• 54 lawyers in Iran face investigation over solidarity with the family of Jina Mahsa Amini 

  The Iranian judiciary launched an investigation against dozens of lawyers who expressed solidarity with the family of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, murdered in Tehran last September.
• HPG reports hundreds of Turkish attacks on guerrilla areas 

  The Turkish state continues its attacks against guerrilla areas in northern Iraq, using banned weapons.
• HPG guerrillas: July 14 resistance continues in Imrali and the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Remembering the martyrs of the great death fast of July 14, HPG guerrillas vowed to continue their struggle in the footsteps of the martyrs.
• Dağ and Er enter 58th day of hunger strike 

  Hunger strikers Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er are protesting the inhuman treatment they have been suffering in a KDP prison for 58 days.
• Soldier claimed to have died in accident: ‘Our commanders responsible if something happens to us' 

  Turkish soldier Erdem Kavlak, who is claimed to have died in an accident on July 11, turned out to have warned of threats against his life before his death.
• HSM: The resistance of 14 July shows us the way 

  The Central Headquarters of the People's Defence Forces remembers those who died on the death fast of 14 July 1982, vowing to continue fighting along the lines of the 14 July resistance.
• HPG releases identity of three guerrillas fallen in Gabar 

  The HPG have announced the death of three of their members. The guerrilla commander Silav Koçer and the fighters Fedakar Hêlîn and Egîd Nîzîp died in December 2022 while resisting the Turkish army in the Gabar region.