Turkish artillery hit several villages in north-eastern Syria on Saturday. In the Christian-majority Khabur Valley, shells were fired at the villages of Al-Fakkah and Qubur al-Qarajim, north of Til Temir, injuring two farmers. The two 40-year-old men were harvesting crops in Al-Fakkah when the shelling started. They were taken to the Şehîd Lêgerîn hospital in Til Temir. Information on the severity of their injuries is not yet available.

In the town of Manbij, further west, intensive bombardments have been targeting the village of Arab Hasan Kabir since midday. According to the Manbij Military Council, the attacks by occupation forces, which started at 12.20 p.m. local time, targeted residential buildings in the village. Some buildings have been extensively damaged and no people have been injured so far.

Attacks on civilian settlement areas are also reported from the occupied canton of Afrin. According to reports from the Rojava-based news agency Hawarnews (ANHA), the villages of Tinibê in Shera and Bênê Sherawa are the focus of the Turkish army and its jihadist allies.

Largely unnoticed by Western public opinion, Turkey is waging an open war of attrition against northern and eastern Syria, bombing civilian settlement areas or autonomous administration facilities on a daily basis. For months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has also been threatening a new war of aggression against the region. Ankara justifies the warlike aggression with a "terrorist threat" to Turkey from the majority Kurdish north-east of Syria. With this, the Turkish regime wants to justify a further invasion. The aim is to expand the illegal occupation zone.