The military violence of the Turkish army and its jihadist allies against the autonomous region of Northern and Eastern Syria continues. Occupation forces took several villages near the district of Til Temir under heavy artillery fire on Monday. Several dozen artillery shells hit the village of Tel Karah Beit, northwest of Til Temir, causing massive damage to houses and cultivated land.

According to military sources, the village had also been targeted by shelling last night. The villages of Tawila and Tall Tawil in the west of Til Temir were also affected by the attacks.

Til Temir is a good 30 kilometres from the Turkish border and borders in the north on the illegal occupation zone that Turkey is running along its southern border in solidarity with jihadists in Rojava. Since 2019, the Christian-majority district has been in the aggressors' crosshairs as part of a war of attrition, with periods of high intensity alternating with periods of low intensity. Over thirty villages have since been either occupied, depopulated or extensively destroyed. Almost as many villages lie directly on the front line - and thus in the permanent sights of the occupying forces.

The constant incursions by Turkey and its Islamist allies constitute violations of the ceasefire and de-escalation agreements concluded between the guarantor powers Russia and the USA with Turkey after the occupation of Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) in October 2019. Both Moscow and Washington nevertheless give Turkey a free hand. Other regions of the AANES are also permanently targeted by the Turkish military, which, however, remains largely unnoticed.