Hasaka.. Syrian Democratic Forces kidnap three minor children and threaten to kill their families

ARK News.. In continuation of the policy of intimidating children, robbing them of their childhood, and throwing them into forced conscription camps in the areas they control, the Syrian Democratic Forces kidnapped three minor children from the countryside of Hasaka city.

The Syria Monitoring Network for Human Rights said that it documented, on July 15, 2024, the kidnapping by militants of the Revolutionary Youth Movement of the Syrian Democratic Forces of the two minor children (Omar Chovan Al-Isa), (Ayaz Chovan Haj Muhammad) and (Muhammad Abdul Raouf Othman), whose ages range between (11-13) years old.

According to the network, minor children were kidnapped from the village of Tel Tawil Marsho in the countryside of the city of Hasaka in Syrian Kurdistan, and were taken to recruitment camps in the Al-Tala’i camp in the city of Hasaka.

The Network confirmed that the families of the kidnapped children demanded their return, but they received death threats and beatings from the kidnappers if they continued to demand their children.

Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said during a report entitled “Children and Armed Conflict” issued on June 3, 2024 that the Syrian Democratic Forces and parties affiliated with it recruited (462) children in the areas they control during the year 2023.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressed his concern about the worsening recruitment and use of children at the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces, and called for the implementation of the action plan signed by Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, with the United Nations representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, in 2019 in order to ending and preventing the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and not using them in military operations.

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