Afrinpost – Special
Afrinpost learned from its sources that the party behind the car bombing and detonation in Mahmudiyah neighborhood in the vicinity of the Habash Gas Station (the Rahman Gas Station now after it was seized by the settlers), is “Ahrar al-Sharqiya militia”.
A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded on June 24, 2020, near the Habash Gas Station (now Rahman) in Mahmudiyah district, led to the martyrdom of the two young Kurds, “Muhammad Ahmed Taher Hamaliku, 33,” from the village of Hassia / Merkan, in the district of “Mobata / Mabatli” and “Isa Hussein / 17 years old”, from the village of Marateh / Maratah, in Afrin center, in addition to killing and wounding five other people.
The sources confirmed that al-Sharqiya gunmen had requested from one of the targeted, a Kurdish citizen (whose name was reserved for security reasons), a sum of money as a royalty, but he refused to pay them, as he is protected by “Ahrar al-Sham” militia controlling the sector that contains the embroidery workshop (his workplace).
During that period, the Kurdish citizen received death threats in the event of refraining from paying the amount of “200 thousand Syrian pounds”, knowing that the target had been kidnapped earlier, by al-Sharqiya militants, and he was kidnapped about two months until he was released after paying a financial ransom to the gunmen.
How was the motorcycle booby-trapped?
The sources said that the target and his colleagues were riding the motorcycle on a daily basis as a means of transportation between their homes and their workplace, and the gunmen took advantage of their bike stopping in front of the apartment building where the embroidery workshop is located, and they boobed the bike by placing a car bomb in the bike’s tank, and when the target and his colleagues went to spend the “lunch break” the bike exploded.
This comes at a time when the continuing security chaos and rivalry between the militias prevail due to their differences over thefts and spheres of influence, in the absence of the law and accountability, which the Turkish occupation deliberately imposed in the occupied territory, with the aim of forming the maximum pressure on the remaining Kurdish indigenous population and displacing them from their homes are in favor of settlers loyal to its expansionist and occupational agendas in northern Syria.
