4th Dec-75k Kurdish refugee IDPs escape Shehba so far, Convoys flee as Turkish directed Jihadis rampage into Rojava, now besieging Manbij …

Around 75K IDP refugees so far displaced from Aleppo and environs into North and East Syria. Up to 100,000 still trapped in now occupied Shehba at the mercy of rampaging Turkish directed SNA jihadi mercenaries

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– Thousands sleeping outside in freezing conditions, multiple deaths reported, urgent need for shelter and other humanitarian relief.

a.m. 4th Dec… Pro-Turkish Islamists are bombing Manbij, their vanguard has been stopped by the SDF


– Grave risk of imminent Turkish-backed assault against DAANES-governed Manbij, with multi-ethnic population of c.300K, creating further destabilization.


– Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods remain under a state of siege by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as violence targets Yezidis and Kurds attempting to flee Islamist forces.

Forcible displacement into North and East Syria

– C. 75,000 people displaced from Aleppo and environs into North and East Syria, primarily Kurds alongside other minorities, as well as Arabs (OCHA: 10K family groups; DAANES: 75-100K individuals; MEE; 120K individuals).


– Thousands slept outside across the past two nights in freezing temperatures, with at least three deaths of elderly people reported by RIC sources.


– Tens of thousands have been transferred out of Shehba/Tel Rifaat region, seized two days ago by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army militias which previously drove the bulk of the Kurdish population and all Yazidis and Christians out of the Afrin region in 2018.


– Thousands more Arab IDPs have arrived fleeing generalized violence across north-west Syria

– Two reception centers have been set up in Raqqa and Tabqa. In addition to the temporary camps, schools and gymnasiums have been prepared to host IDPs.

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– Dozens arrived with injuries from attacks by the Syrian National Army (SNA), as humanitarian organizations call on the international community to help.

Arrival of the first group of displaced people from Tell-Rifaat in Qamishlo, amidst a reception and invitations to welcome them

– Buses will be deployed from Tabqa to go back and retrieve any civilians who have not evacuated the Shehba region. He said the buses will be under protection to ensure the civilians can be transported safely.

– The Co-chair of Afrin and Shahba Council, Muhammad Sheikho, said: “The IDPs who have arrived have been sleeping outside for the past 48-72 hours.

There is no room for them, until shelter has been set up. Others have been unable to leave, and there’s no information from them, while others are stuck on the way here, as their cars have broken down.

All DAANES hospitals have been directed to offer care for free, but there remains an urgent need for medical support, particularly due to the extreme cold.”

Situation in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, isolated Kurdish neighborhoods

IDPs sheltering in Raqqa Stadium. Convoy now reaches Qamishlo

– Isolated Kurdish neighborhoods continue to suffer conditions of siege after remainder of Aleppo was captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).


– Negotiations between the SDF/DAANES and surrounding HTS forces continue, with SDF representatives stating that locals will decide whether to leave or remain.

Violence against civilians

– DAANES officials warn of a grave risk of a Turkish assault against Manbij, a multi-ethnic city west of the Euphrates and home to 300,000+ individuals forming an integral part of the multi-ethnic DAANES model of governance.


-Attacks continued by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in the Euphrates canton of DAANES along the line of contact near Manbij and Kobane, with advances.

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Kurdish doctor’s 8 hour Convoy ordeal in convoy escaping Jihadis from Aleppo to Raqqa in Rojava – Infographic

كوردى عربي on 3rd December 2024 by North Press Agency with Dr Shahdar Osso. via thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-F2A Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

On Monday evening, the first of 150,ooo Afrin refugee IDPs , escaping a Turkish ordered Jihadi invasion from Tel Rifaat in Shahba region arrived in Tabqa and Raqqa through a humanitarian corridor secured by the multi-ethnic Rojava defense SDF.

Displaced Kurds sleeping in the open in the city of Tabqa, northern Syria – North Press

RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – After a grueling and perilous journey on a motorcycle, Shahdar finally reached the city of Tabqa in northern Syria, unsure of how he had survived. Upon arrival, he asked the locals waiting for displaced persons, “Where am I?”

Shahdar Osso, a dentist from the town of Tel Rifaat in northern Aleppo, fled alongside a convoy of displaced residents from Tel Rifaat and northern Aleppo, locally known as Shahba region, to the city of Tabqa after Turkish-backed opposition factions, took control of the area. Lost and disoriented, he recalls the arduous details of his escape on a motorcycle.

Sheikhmos Ahmed, head of the camps office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), tells North Press that an estimated 120,000 people are expected to flee from northern Aleppo to northeastern Syria.

“They will kill us all”

The displaced doctor recounts to North Press, “An hour before the Syrian National Army factions entered Tel Rifaat, we headed toward the al-Ahdath village.”

He described how, upon reaching al-Ahdath, “The factions surrounded us and demanded we head to Afrin. But the people refused—we were thousands in number.”

Returning to Afrin, he explains, “was equivalent to suicide. They would kill us all, as they had done to the residents of Nubl and Zahraa.”

Shahdar recalls the terrifying moment when they realized they were trapped. “As we approached al-Ahdath, I stood with three others and learned that we were encircled. The SNA factions behind us and al-Nusra Front militants ahead of us.”

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Ethnic cleansing: Convoys of Tens of thousands of Kurds in freezing cold escape Turkish paid Jihadis invading Shebha- Photo/Video Gallery

from Kurdis Kat at /kurdiscat.blogspot. on 2nd December 2024 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-F11 Telegramt.me/thefreeonline

Kurds who were expelled by pro-Turkish Arabs from the Afrin canton in 2018 are now being expelled from the Shebha region. For the second time in 8 years they are leaving as refugees, with nothing, suffering ethnic cleansing

see Full Report Here.. update: Rojava forces defend Kurdish areas in Aleppo. Turkey allows its jihadis to attack 10,000’s of civilian Kurdish refugee IDPs in Tel Rifaat/Shehba

The Kurds who were expelled by pro-Turkish Arabs from the Afrin canton in 2018 are now being expelled from the Shebha region. For the second time in 8 years they are leaving as refugees, with nothing, suffering ethnic cleansing https://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2024/12/les-forces-kurdes-defensen-en-solitari.html?m=1

Tens of thousands of Kurds are trying to evacuate Tell Rifaat, Sehba and Esrefiye. Many of these people fled Efrîn (2018) and now have to flee again from Turkish Islamists who have surrounded them and will not let them move.
https://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2024/12/les-forces-kurdes-defensen-en-solitari.html?m=1

Drama humanitari amb neteja ètnica contra els kurds del nord de Síria
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Humanitarian drama with ethnic cleansing against Kurds in northern Syria
Between 40,000 and 200,000 people, mostly Kurds, are surrounded in northwestern Syria. In…..

One of the convoys of Kurdish people expelled for ethnic reasons by the Turks from Shehbha begins to move. They are heading to Tabqa
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update: Rojava forces defend Kurdish areas in Aleppo. Turkey allows its jihadis to attack 10,000’s of civilian Kurdish refugee IDPs in Tel Rifaat/Shehba

Monday 2nd Dec 2024 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-F0r Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

In a surprise move on 3oth November a large force of Kurdish SDF from Rojava crossed SAA territory and entered Aleppo in support of Syrian State forces and to defend the Kurdish neigbourhoods in Aleppo and the Shehba/Tel Rifaat enclave.

The Jihadi HTS and other Turkish funded forces seized most of Aleppo city of 2 million by default as the unprepared State forces fled..

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Thousands of Kurds, previously displaced from Afrin and trapped for 5 years , are stuck in their cars and on roads while trying to escape the Shahba area of Aleppo province as Turkey-backed militants ramp up their attacks in a bid to loot and take the area from Kurdish defense forces.. info-RUDAW

The 100,000 strong Syrian_Democratic_Forces, SDF revolutionary coalition, (which ironically is still backed by the United States after being adopted to defeat ISIS ) rushed thousands of heavily armed fighters from its areas of control in Rojava, through the government-held territory of Deir Haif, to briefly occupy Aleppo International Airport, then to the Kurdish-held district of Sheikh Maqsoud in the city and even to the desperately threatened enclave of Tel Rifaat/Shehba by the Turkish border .

On Sunday a General Mobilisation was declared in Rojava amid heavier Turkish backed attacks

The daring breakout from Rojava by the autonomous SDF Rojava multi-ethnic coalition of militias could even lead to military reconciliation with Damascus as Assad forces fled.

Disaster in Tel Rifaat as Turkey lets Jihadis swarm into enclave- SDF fighting back and begins massive evacuation of refugee IDPs

december 2nd ‘The Turkish jihadi mercenaries have “conquered” part of the enclave of Tel Rifaat (Syria).

Afrin people about Tal Rifaat massacre: Whatever the occupier does, we will not yield

Tel Rifaat is a town and small enclave in the Shehba district which was left as a dumping ground for destitute refugees after Turkey’s illegal invasion, ethnic cleansing and resettlement with its Islamic proxies of the nearby Afrin area.

Tel Rifaat is isolated and right beside the Turkish Invasion HQ in Azaz. /see map. It is defended precariously under shelling by the local YPG/J-SDF and has various IDF refugee camps like Shebha still holding up to 180 thousand Kurds from NATO/ Turkey’s invasion and ethnic cleansing of nearby Afrin, totally abandoned by the responsible international West.

Fear looms as half a million Kurds, Yazidis trapped in northern Aleppo

SDF says working to evacuate its people from Tal Rifaat

Having looted and destroyed Afrin the Islamic militias have agitated for years for permission to attack the Kurdish refugees in Shehba/Tel Rifaat.

Thousands of women refugees joined a demonstration in Tel Rifaat town in the Shehba Canton on Sunday 10th Nov 2019 in protest at the Turkish state’s invasion and genocidal practices in northern Syria. 40% of the population of Efrin (Afrin) now survive in this semi no-man’s land, defended by the multi-ethnic SDF of AANES, after expulsion by the Turkish invasion, plantation and Turkification of their homes and properties…. info-The Free

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Finally on 28th Nov 2024 the Syrian State forces on the border fled. Next day Kurdish SDF reinforcements arrived to attempt a defense of the IDF refugees and begin evacuation. But the invasion order had already been given.

The Shehba internal refugee camp in Tel Rifaat

Erdogan, the Turkiye dictator, has repeatedly boasted he would ‘conquer’ Tel Rifaat with his Islamic mercenaries and wipe out the Kurds, especially the redellious women. see also.. 2022 NATO okays Turkish genocide of 170K trapped Afrin refugees in Tell Rifaat/Shebha enclave– July 2022)

first video from jihadi attack on Tel Rifaat

On Sunday 1st December 2024, 20.00 hours we received the first news that Tel Rifaat has been partly occupied by the Jihadis, amid serious fears for the safety of tens of thousands of Kurdish families via the fascist imperialist Turkish/NATO genocidal regime.

2022.. ASSORTED TURKISH PAID JIHADIS ARRIVED, HOPING TO ATTACK TEL RIFAAT

2022- Previous attempt to invade the Tel Rifaat refuge in 2022. On the left Kurdish kids confront Jihadis awaiting attack permission on the border. On right 58 meter long mass mural painting organised by revolutionary women in Shahba Camp.

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SDF reinforcements aim to hold back the jihadi/Al Qaeda offensive in Aleppo until the Damascus/Russian/ Irani counter offensive arrives.

video of huge Kurdish Rescue Convoy which crossed Syria to Aleppo

The aim of the Kurdish expedition is to protect the 2 Kurdish districts in Aleppo city from massacre by the Jihadi terrorists, as well as the refuge to the people of the Tel Rifaat enclave (see above).

While the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its Russian support withdrew from the entire front, Kurdish forces maintain it where they have a presence.

Not only that, but the SDF has created a corridor that has allowed them to contact the two Kurdish neighbourhoods of Aleppo.

The Kurds also occupied the Aleppo International Airport, which State forced had also fled from, possibly along with Russian troops.

The current situation is developing on several fronts:

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Kurdish feminist guerrilla YJA-Star statement for 25N: ‘YJA Star is an army that defends all oppressed women’ + YPJ Gallery


on November 20, 2024 de KurdisCat: Comunicat via thefreeonline Telegram/t.me/thefreeonline

The YJA Star guerrillas (Yekîneyên Jinên Azad ên Star or Free Women’s Units-Ishtar) drew attention to violence against women in the patriarchal system on the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Highlighting that millions of women are subjected to massacres, rape, harassment and violence in the patriarchal system every day, the YJA Star guerrillas stated that this brutality against women is part of life and is intended to be legitimized.

Stating that they have taken a pioneering role in all aspects of life and war, the women guerrillas stressed that systematic violence can only end through the joint organization and self-defense of women.

The guerrilla said that in many parts of the world, policies of femicide are being carried out against women, and that these policies can be overcome with resistance and solidarity.

YPJ soldier with freed girl after the epic battle to free Manbij… Illustrating the inspiring change from medieval Sharia law to anarcha-feminism.

The YJA Star guerrillas emphasized that they fight not only for the women of Kurdistan, but also for all oppressed and violent women, giving the following message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25:

“YJA Star is an army that defends all oppressed women, the women of Kurdistan and Turkey first and foremost, as well as Afghanistan, India and Europe. We will defeat the invaders with the motto ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (Woman, Life, Freedom).

We follow the path of selfless comrades like Asya, Rûken and Sar, who sacrificed their lives for freedom without a moment’s hesitation. As YJA Star fighters, we will strike a blow to the male-dominated system in every action we take.

The YPJ, part of the Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) of the Autonomous Administration of Noth East Syria (AANES)

We call on all young women to join the ranks of YJA Star, to join the life beautified by the Apoist philosophy (referring to Apo, Abdullah Öçalan) and to crown the struggle with success”.

YJA Star is the female armed militia of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK): Sozdar Avesta, member of the Presidential Council (made up of 6 people*) of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK) which includes, among others, the PKK and the YJA itself, has expressed a similar sentiment:

“Women must strengthen their self-defense and be more aware and organized.” Avesta, whose real name is Nuriye Kesbir (1948), joined the PKK in 1973 and has focused on defending the Kurdish Yezidi minority.

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Abdullah Öcalan and the Revolution in Rojava are a Beacon for Revolutionary Practice from below

from thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-EpX on 12 October 2023 By Gemma Parera at El Salto via Rebelion.Org Translation. thefreeonline/ Tgram: t.me/thefreeonline

Afrin ”terrorist women” demonstrate for murdered sons and freedom of their leader Ocalan

Abdullah Öcalan is the political leader of the Kurdistan liberation movement and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), and launched the proposal of Democratic Confederalism that inspired the 2012 revolution in Rojava (western Kurdistan located in Syria) and the political model that has since been built with the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

For many international activists, the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdistan liberation movement are a source of inspiration.

“It is the most alive revolutionary movement in the world at the moment, the most confrontational and the one with the most real power of change,” says Maddi.

Maddi came into contact with the Kurdistan liberation movement ten years ago in what she defines as “a change of political cycle” in Euskal Herria.

“It was not only the end of the armed struggle, but also the dismantling of an entire political movement that was articulated in society,” explains this young activist who, in search of new horizons, participated in a brigade that went from Euskal Herria to Rojava. Ana and Sílvia also share the experience of having been in Rojava where they went to learn about the role of women in the resistance against the Islamic State and the political paradigm and social model that made it possible.

Ona, who was also able to see it first hand, highlights how she was marked by learning about a “democracy that is not representative, but based on people taking responsibility for resolving their own basic needs and in which it is understood that without the liberation of women we cannot liberate the whole of society.”

For them, learning about this thought and this practice has meant a new way of understanding militancy as “a life choice, with more initiative and its own strength,” says Maddi.

“If you are looking for a path of determination in the struggle, without giving up, the Kurdish movement is an example,” adds Sílvia.

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‘Erdogan’s terrorists ”Assassinating, Beheading, Stabbing and Planting Explosives’ in ‘Safe Zone’


Turkish ‘elected dictator’ Tayyip Erdogan said yet again on Saturday that he will order a military air and ground operation east of the Euphrates river in Syria.“We’ve made our preparations, we’ve made our operation plans, given the necessary instructions”, the politician said, adding that Turkey would launch the illegal genocidal invasion “as soon as today or tomorrow”.

But a Turkish backed mercenary group, Ahrar al-Shaab  ” has already infiltrated the area and is committing dozens of atrocities,  specializing in assassinations, beheadings, stabbings and the planting of explosive devices to ‘avenge attacks by the resistance in occupied Afrin’, focusing on border cities such as Serekaniye, Dirbesiye and Qamishlo in Erdogan’s ”Safe Zone”. (see below and HERE https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2019/09/database).

7 Oct 2019. Yesterdays massive protests against imminent illegal Turkish Invasion in Sere Kaniye/Ras al-Ayn border.

Erdogan is still being courted by both the US and Russia who see Turkey as strategic, he has defied with impunity the now embattled Trump on the S400 deal and on buying Iranian oil, and now demands permission to use Syrian air space to again bomb the Syrian people before invading.

Erdogan claimed he intends to settle 3.5m Syrian refugees in Turkey in the invaded area he calls a ”safe zone”…

But over and over he previously claimed he wants to expel the local Kurdish population. ”cleanse Rojava” and restore the Ottoman Empire and is proving his wish in ‘turkifying’ Afrin, so this new senseless invasion would be more ethnic cleansing and attempted genocide.

Serekaniye demonstration ‘Down with the occupation’ Syrian Kurds protest

Erdogan has gained much needed support (his AKP party lost Istanbul city council) by complaining often about the  3.5m Syrian refugees in Turkey, although they are less than 5% of the Turkish population in a huge area. Turkey has already received 6,000,000,000 euros by blackmailing EU taxpayers to support them.

Refugees used again as Human Blackmail by Erdogan to extract money and impunity for Rojava invasion

Meanwhile they are forced to work black for starvation wages, boosting the economy and forcing salaries down for everyone. (The over 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey (actually a tiny minority in a population of 81 million compared with the IDP’s hosted in Rojava and formerly Afrin) are being cruelly exploited as virtual black slave labour while being subsidised with billions of euros by the EU taxpayer with continuous blatant blackmail threats to ” flood Europe” with them.)

And now he is using them as a ridiculous excuse for a new illegal invasion, this time in NE Syria. (The idea of ‘settling’ 2,000,000 refugees in an already occupied  rural semi desert region with no resources might appeal to Erdogan’s favourite historical figure: Adolf Hitler).

Lebanon for example has nearly half its population Syrian refugees and gets little aid or attention. Afrin, before the ongoing invasion by Turkey, had nearly doubled its population hosting a huge number of Arab, Christian, Assyrian and Turkmen refugees and was hailed as a  model of direct democracy, gender equality and religious and ethnic tolerance.

Despite a siege blockade the Afrin population nearly doubled (172k to 323k )  while Turkey’s has only increased by 4.4%  (3.5 million out of 80 million).  (The total population of Afrin as of 2005 was recorded at only 172,095 people Wikipedia.) The Turkish takeover has forced a mass exodus of refugees from Afrin amidst documented reports of mass murder, widespread looting , kidnapping, rape, a continuing guerilla war and pillage by the Turkish contracted Jihadi mercenaries and Turkish military.

Once invaded Turkey will NEVER LEAVE, and a guerilla war will continue indefinitely. For example, Turkey refuses to leave Nth Cyprus,  or its illegal bases in Iraq,or Afrin, Al Bab, Jarablus, Azaz.. or of course the Syrian province of Hatay, now 80 years invaded and ethnically cleansed.

Erdogan forced more than half Afrin’s population to flee and they still survive in tent camps, seizing their property and importing thousands of jihadi mercenaries, Al Qaeda ex ISIS guerillas, and sponsored the Al Qaesa mini state in Idlib….

…and now has the utter hypocrisy to complain about refugees and announce a new invasion ‘to settle them in a safe area’.

Defeated but defiant. Massacres  by Turkish troops and  the mercenaries of FSA  around Afrin  as the NATO tanks finally rolled in and the Afrin defense became a guerilla war..

It is not necessary either to set  up a ”safe zone”.   All Turkey has to do is pull out and stop the arms, cash and material supplies,  HTS in Idlib would have to surrender the Al Qaeda State, the war would quickly end and the refugees would surely flock home. Continue reading “‘Erdogan’s terrorists ”Assassinating, Beheading, Stabbing and Planting Explosives’ in ‘Safe Zone’”