QAMISHLO – For about two weeks, Syrian government forces have imposed a siege on two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, leaving 200,000 civilians without flour and fuel.
For 12th day in a row, the Fourth Armored Division of the government forces has been denying the entry of food staples to Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh. The neighborhoods are separated from the other neighborhoods in Aleppo by three government security checkpoints; Ashrafiyeh, Awared, and Maghsalat al-Jazira. The siege imposed by the government forces led the residents of the neighborhoods to run out of bread.
In a previous statement to North Press, Adar Hussein, official at the Economic Corporation of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, said for two months they have been suffering from an intermittent siege on the part of the Syrian government, considering that the lack of bread is a humanitarian catastrophe. Both Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods, northern Aleppo, are semi-autonomous and run by a civil administration.
On the night of 12th of April, movements were spotted in the centre of the city that confirms the escalation.
As a response to this blockade, the Asayish forces of the AANES are mounting up defensive positions and blockades inside the controlled territory in Qamishlo, who is divided with regime forces since the last turkish major operation in the end of 2019.
On Tuesday evening, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) blocked all the roads leading to the security square- held by the government forces in the city of Qamishli, northeast Syria. This comes as a response to the 4th Division of the government forces that have been besieging the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo, central Syria, fore more than a week.
“The Asayish have begun closing all roads leading to the regime’s security square in the center of Qamishli with cement blocks,” a security source told North Press. “Several meetings have been held in recent days between officials in the Autonomous Administration and the government, but no results have been produced so far,” the source, who preferred not to reveal his identity, said
