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A new video on Sunday afternoon of the Kurdish fighter, Cicek Kobani, captured by Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood (the Glory Corps militia) fighting under the banner of the so-called “National Army” militias, in addition to the videos of the mutating of bodies and filming by those militias, to recall the image beheaded Palestinian child to the front.
On July 19, 2016, a video posted on social media showed militants from the radical Noureddine al-Zanki militia attacking a disabled Palestinian boy, Abdullah, before cutting off his entire head during the same video.
The Noureddine Al-Zanki militia is one of the most prominent Islamic militias that have joined the National Army. It took part in the second Turkish military offensive on Syrian territory, in which Ankara occupied the Kurdish region of Afrin on March 18, 2018.
Like other militias in the National Army, according to Amnesty International, the militia is accused of involvement in the abduction and torture of journalists and humanitarian workers in the areas it occupied in rural Aleppo in 2014, 2015 and Afrin thereafter.
From Zanki to Almajd
The Zanki militia, part of the National Army, claimed responsibility for the latest Turkish offensive after they changed the name of their movement to Falek al-Majd that the Palestinian child was a fighter with Assad’s forces, even though he was 12 years old. They issued an official statement at the time.
Day after day, new facts are reveal the faces of about some armed groups fighting under the banner of the pro-Ankara National Army, which is not very different from the hard-line terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
This is evident from photographs and videos of prisoners and fighters who died in the fighting between them and the SDF forces. They do not just brag about killing civilians on the ground and photographing themselves in the process, as they did in the moments of the execution of Syrian Kurdish politician Hefreen Khalaf about two weeks ago.
Mutating of bodies and selfies
These pro-Ankara gunmen sometimes show the bodies in the videos and sometimes smiling, while taking a selfie with a wounded prisoner in her foot, as they did with the fighter in the Women’s Protection Units, Cicek Kobani, who fell captive in their hands while fighting against them. In the ranks of the forces of the “Democratic Syria”.
Accused of slaughtering a Palestinian child
He appeared in the picture “selfie” along with the captured fighter, smiling, called “Major Yasser Abdul Rahim” accused of slaughtering a Palestinian Palestinian child with knives years ago, and he himself appeared with her in the first video, where one of its members threatened to slaughter the fighter in the way of “IS” he was accompanied by a number of military militia leaders, including Yamen Teldgo.
Guest on Aljazeera
Despite these crimes, Abdul Rahim is shown as a guest on Al-Jazeera television as a military spokesman, and Al-Jazeera defines his viewers as “the military spokesman for the Syrian negotiating delegation in Astana” and is regularly hosted by Al-Jazeera.
Al-Jazeera also hosted Captain Abdul Salam Abdul Razzaq shortly after the slaughter of the Palestinian child to justify the crime.
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Syria said on Wednesday that US forces saw evidence of Turkish war crimes in Syria during an attack on Kurds there.
James Jeffrey, during a hearing in the US House of Representatives: “We did not see common evidence of ethnic cleansing” from Turkey, but there are reports of “many facts of what are considered war crimes.”
A few days ago, the European Parliament, in a session held last Thursday in Strasbourg, supported the international investigation into accusations of Turkey’s use of banned weapons in northern Syria, including white phosphorus. A majority of deputies voted for a resolution strongly
condemning the unilateral Turkish operation in northeastern Syria.
The European Parliament also announced that the gunmen of one of the Islamic militias of Turkey, carried out indiscriminate executions and committed crimes of torture.
Last week, Amnesty International accused Turkish forces and their militias of “war crimes” in their offensive against Syrian Democratic Forces fighters in northeastern Syria.
“Turkish forces and the coalition of armed groups supported by them have shown a shameful disregard for the lives of civilians through serious abuses and war crimes, including summary killings and attacks that have killed and injured civilians,” Amnesty said in a report.
