175.000 of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who left Afrin due to Turkish state attacks continue their resistance in the Shehba Canton and the villages of Sherawa, while the administrations of Afrin and Shehba are calling on the UN to declare a safe zone in Shehba, where the Turkish state threat continues.

Following the historic two month long resistance against the invading Turkish state and the gang groups gathered from around the world like ISIS, Al Qaeda and Al-Nusra, the Afrin Canton administration decided to evacuate the civilian population and take them to the Shehba region as civilian casualties rose.

Having suffered more than 320 Martyrs, most of whom were women and children, and over 1200 people wounded, the people of Afrin resisted alongside the defense forces to the end. With the decision of the administration, they rejected the Turkish invasion and migrated to the Shehba Canton, Afrin's Sherawa district, Aleppo's Nubul-Zehra subdistrict, Aleppo center and the Cizire Canton.

The people of Afrin, whose lands have been invaded by the NATO member Turkish state with full support of Russia and collaboration by Al Qaeda gangs, continue their resistance in half-demolished buildings, mosques, schools, tents and courtyards under harsh conditions. The biggest migration has been to Shehba and Sherawa where 175.000 civilians wait for the day they will return to their lands.

According to a census by the Afrin and Shehba Canton administrations, there are 175.000 people from Afrin by the border in the Shehba Canton and Sherawa as they didn't want to go too far. The people of Afrin continue to resist with insufficient means to fulfill their vital needs of shelter, food, water and medicine in the Ehres, Fafine, Til Rifat and Kefernaye subdistricts in Shehba and their villages.

OVER 175.000 CIVILIANS IN SHEHBA AND SHERAWA

According to the same census, there are 24.000 migrants from Afrin in Til Rifat and its Keferantun, Şêx Hîlal and Şêx Îsa villages. There are over 40.000 civilians from Afrin in the Fafînê subdistrict and its Hesîn, Mezra Helîsa, Şêx Kêf, Werdiyê, Wehşiyê, Cûba, Keramê, Elewşê, Til Şeîr, Xirnata, Helîsa, Hesacix, Babilnês, Nerabiyê, Şaale, Ehdes, Mezara, Sed Şehba, Til Madiq, Semûqa, Til Cîcan, Til Enab, Derînte, Maret Mislimiyê, Maret Keferzixir, Xirebçe, Zuweyen, Nasriye, Mezara Til Şeîr and Muşrîfe villages. In Shehba's Ehres subdistrict and its Til Qerah, Til Sosin, Hirbîl, Bîr Hirbil, Maretê, Ehdes, Ûm El Xoş, Şahabiyê, Ramdaniyê, Ebû Mîra, Mîntar, Qenfûs, Kafer Karis, Mezara, Kiryo and Kefernasê villages, there are over 37.000 civilians. There are some 10.000 others in the Kefernayê subdistrict.

In Aqîbê, Ziyaret, Xerabkê, Bênê, Burç Qos, Gundê Mezin, Soxanekê and Kewkebê villages and subdistricts in Afrin's Sherawa district, there are over 30.000 migrants from Afrin. Another region to receive large scale migration is Aleppo's Nûbûl-Zehr subdistrict, where over 25.000 Civilians from Afrin have migrated according to their own census data. There are an estimated 100. 000 migrants in Aleppo center.

"SHEHBA REGION SHOULD BE DECLARED A SAFE ZONE”

A tent city was set up in Shehba by the Afrin and Shehba administrations following the housing issue that arose with the mass migration, and efforts for a second one continue. Over 600 families have been settled in the camp named " Berxwedan" to date, as efforts for the second camp named "Serdem" are underway.

Nûrşan Hisên from the Berxwedan Camp administration stated that the people from Afrin who had to migrate to the Shehba and Sherawa regions following the genocidal invasion attacks by theTurkish State have received no aid whatsoever from the United Nations (UN) or any international aid organizations, and that the needs of the migrants have been met by the Kurdish people and their allies.

Nûrşan Hisên said there has been a great surge of people into the Shehba region and added that the region is not safe and suffers regular attacks by the Turkish state and their allied gangs. Nûrşan Hisên said: "There is a significant population in the Shehba region. The people from Afrin live here under harsh conditions. The United Nations should declare this a safe zone."