Efforts to force them to sell their house | Six young men from Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) injured in grenade attack by Iranian-backed militiamen in Sayeda Zeinab

Rif Dimashq province: SOHR sources have reported that six young men sustained various injuries and were taken to the hospital, when a group of Iranian-backed militiamen threw a grenade on them following disagreements between the two sides in Kherbet Ward in Sayeda Zeinab area to the south of Damascus city.

 

This comes as a part of efforts by the group of Iranian-backed militiamen to force a family from Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) city to sell their house and leave the area over a dispute that erupted between the two sides nearly a year and a half ago. At that time, the family was assaulted by a group of Iranian-backed militiamen who stormed the family’s house in Kherbet Al-Ward, beat women and children and sabotaged the house’s contents, as the owner of the house refused to sell it to that group.

 

On September 25, 2022, SOHR activists reported that the regime’s security services arrested eight civilians, including at least one child and a woman, of a Kurdish family living in Khirbet Al-Ward area near Al-Sayyida Zainab, south of Rif Dimashq.

 

This came after a group of members of Baqir Brigade operating under the banner of Lebanese Hezbollah attacked the Kurdish family home, severely beat men, women, and children and vandalised the furniture and contents of the house.

 

The armed group attacked the family over a dispute that erupted with the owner of the house as he refused to sell his home to the Lebanese Hezbollah-backed group.

 

However, instead of intervening for the Kurdish family, regime security services arrested the family members who were injured after being beaten, amid a threat to release them only if they give up the house.