Mohammed's scream... The true face of war. The children, always children paying the highest tribute to the madness of war!…
Mohammed's scream... The true face of war. The children, always children paying the highest tribute to the madness of war!
In the Kurdish hospital in the city of Ras al-Ain Mohammed 13 years old he has burns so severe that he fears the use of phosphorus. Twenty minutes pass before a nurse manages to inject morphine into the child. He screams, and in all that time, as horrible as the sound of her terrified screams, is the expression on his face: the horror that the sight of his disfigured body causes him.
"Dad, Pope, Pope", he screams at his father in sobs, gasping. “Stop the burning, I beg you, stops the burning!”. Burned from throat to waist.
This is the true face of war, children, always children paying the highest tribute to the madness of war.
A tribute of pain, of blood, of desperation.
The Kurdish autonomous administration: “Erdogan is resorting to phosphorus and napalm, banned globally”. Turkey's reply: the Kurdish militias of the "Ypg use chemical weapons to then accuse us". The doctors: “People have injuries that are not at all common”
“AFTER days of fierce resistance by our fighters against Turkey's heavy ground and air attacks in Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ayn), we suspect that unconventional weapons are being used against the FDS fighters based on the reports we receive from the besieged city", writes the spokesperson of the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces on Twitter Mustafa Bali. “We urge international organizations to send their teams to investigate the injuries sustained in the attacks. Medical facilities in north-eastern Syria lack teams of experts following the withdrawal of NGOs due to attacks from the Turkish invasion.", he remarks.
The weapons used could be napalm and white phosphorus ammunition. At least this is what the autonomous Kurdish administration reports in a note, which underlines how Ankara resorted to banned weapons due to the unexpected resistance encountered in the city of Ras al-Ayn. “Turkish aggression is using all available weapons against Ras al-Ayn – reads the note -. Faced with the obvious failure of his plan, Erdogan is resorting to weapons that are banned globally such as phosphorus and napalm.".
Ankara nega. “Everyone knows that the Turkish army has no chemical weapons in its inventory. Some information indicates that "the Kurdish militias of the "YPG use chemical weapons to then accuse Turkey", replied the Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar.
But doctors are convinced of it. People hospitalized in Ras al-Ain hospitals, in northern Syria, have “uncommon wounds”, which raise fears that "unconventional weapons were used", reports the Kurdish doctor Manal Mohammed, head of the Rojava Health Board, who told the broadcaster Rudaw that "our health personnel are now investigating to see what type of weapons were used against us". Kurdish doctors “fear that prohibited weapons were used in Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain, But also between Lebanese and foreigners). The wounds we are treating in hospitals are not normal wounds at all.", Mohammed added.
In a note, the health directorate of the Syrian Kurdish region says that there are hundreds of injured in the areas of Ras al-Ain and Tal Tamer, but that medical personnel are unable to reach them due to bombing by Turkish fighters.Syrian doctors also underline that dozens of civilians are seriously injured and their lives are in danger.
