The “Olive Branch” Operation Forces continue targeting Afrin area with the violent battles in areas in the northern countryside of area

Aleppo province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: ongoing shelling is still taking place by the forces of “Olive Branch” Operation in Afrin area, which is controlled by the Kurdish forces, where the SOHR monitored during the past 24 hours the Turkish forces targeting a school in Maydanki village, whose water dam “April 14 Dam” was shelled by the Turkish forces, and the shelling caused material damage to the school in the village, in addition to damage to the properties of citizens, and the Turkish forces targeted by artillery shelling on desalination plant located in Mateen area about 9 km northeast of Afrin city, which caused material damage to the plant, endangering the plant and putting the process of providing water to thousands of people and displaced in Afrin area in danger, and the Turkish forces also fired artillery and missile shells at areas in the villages of Jandyras district and other places in its outskirts, located in the southwestern countryside of Afrin, and the forces of “Olive Branch” Operation also shelled Mosaka village and other areas in the outskirts of Raju town in the western and northwestern countryside of Afrin city. areas in the district of Bolbola and the villages of the town, controlled by the Turkish forces and their allied factions, were also shelled, and the shelling caused material damage and no information about human losses so far.

The SOHR monitored violent clashes taking place between the Turkish forces and their allied rebel and Islamic factions, operating within “Olive Branch” Operation against the Kurdish YPG and the Self-Defense Forces in areas in the northern countryside of Afrin, where the violent clashes are concentrated in the area of Sheikh Khorz, which the factions and the Turkish forces advanced to and seek to fully control, amid an attempt of rebel attacks by the Kurdish forces, and the clashes are accompanied by an exchange of targeting between both parties, and clashes are taking places in areas in Hamam area in the far southwest of Afrin, and this was coincided with targeting of the Kurdish forces and shelling by the Turkish forces, and there is information about shelling resulting in more human losses in the ranks of both parties.