November 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced the Turkish military forces present in northern Syria for depriving more than a million inhabitants of the Syrian province of Hasaka of drinking water.
“Cutting off the water to the citizens of Hasaka and other Syrian cities is an inhumane and vile act committed by the Turkish occupier and his lackeys from terrorist organizations and also by the separatist FDS militia and their American allies,” the Syrian government denounced in a statement. statement collected by the official news agency, SANA. The SDF is the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-Arab militia with a presence in the northeast of the country.
Damascus denounces that the repeated water cuts constitute a collective punishment against the civilian population, especially for vulnerable groups such as children, women and the elderly, in addition to being a war crime and a crime against humanity.
The statement has also appealed to the international community and the UN because “sentences are no longer enough” and calls for immediate measures to stop these practices.
