The occupying Turkish state and allied gangs attacked Helisa village in the district of Fafîn in Afrin-Shehba Canton on Sunday. A 40-year-old civilian named Mihemed Arif Hac Mehmûd lost his life in the bombardment.

Hisên Mihemed Hesen Xelef (9), Murad Mihemed Hac Mehmûd (14) and Rosêl Mihemed Xelef (13) were injured.

According to reports from the ground, Rosêl Mihemed Xelef is in critical condition.

Fafîn is located about 20 kilometres southeast of Tel Rifat and 15 kilometres north of Aleppo. Since the renewal of the social contract of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), the village has been administratively part of the Afrin-Shehba canton. Tens of thousands of people fled there in 2018 after Turkey and its mercenaries from the so-called ‘Syrian National Army’ (SNA) attacked Afrin.

Trapped in a no man's land between the Syrian regime and the Turkish occupation zone, which is partly a desert, the civilian population and infrastructure of Afrin-Shehba are repeatedly attacked. Fafîn is a particularly frequent target of bombings. The international community is ignoring the crimes committed by its partner Turkey in northern and eastern Syria.