Amid suspects of being killed | Child found hung in his house in Deir Ezzor countryside

Deir Ezzor province: A 12-year-old boy was found dead and hung with a rope in his house in the SDF-controlled town of Al-Jarthi Al-Sharqi. SOHR activists have suggested that the child was killed and not committed suicide. Meanwhile, local authorities started investigations to disclose the circumstances of the incident.

 

The Syrian Observatory has documented 16 murder crimes in SDF-controlled areas since early 2024, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 18 civilian fatalities, including three children and a woman; they are distributed regionally as follows:

 

• Al-Hasakah: Two children and a man.

 

• Deir Ezzor: Nine civilians, including a child and a woman.

 

• Al-Raqqah: Five civilians.

 

• Manbij: A man.