Media pressure returns a minor girl kidnapped by the SDF to the arms of her family

Media pressure returns a minor girl kidnapped by the SDF to the arms of her family

Feb 03 2023

ARK News... After media pressure and appeals to be returned to the arms of her family, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) returned a kidnapped immigrant girl with the aim of compulsory recruitment in Al-Shahba camps for the Kurdish displaced from Afrin.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, on January 7, 2023, kidnapped the girl Alif Othman from the camps of the displaced from Afrin. She was kidnapped from the al-Shahba camps in the countryside of Aleppo and taken to the compulsory recruitment camps, according to the ARK source.

The girl was born in 2007 and comes from the village of Holille, in the Rajo town, in the city of Afrin, in Syrian Kurdistan.

On Thursday, February 2, 2023, another source from al-Shahba stated that the SDF returned the child after media pressure.

Although the Syrian Democratic Forces signed an action plan with the United Nations in order to end and prevent the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and their use in military actions, as the plan was signed by the Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, Mazloum Kobani, with the United Nations Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, during An official ceremony was held at the United Nations Palace, on June 29, 2019. However, the enrollment of minors in battles and their recruitment continues, amid neglect of the appeals of the children's families, and the calls of Kurdish activists, politicians, and parties for the need to put an end to this dangerous phenomenon that caused in one way or another the emptying of the region from the Kurds.

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