SDF provides humanitarian assistance to people affected by ISIS prison attack

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have provided humanitarian assistance to residents of the Geweran neighborhood who were affected by the last ISIS terrorist attack on al-Sina’a prison in the city of Heseke (al-Hasaka).

SDF units handed the aid to the al-Hasaka Provincial Council, to be distributed directly to the residents.

This is the third batch of humanitarian assistance provided by the SDF within a plan to cover all the affected areas of Geweran, al-Zuhour, and al-Nashwa.

Background

On January 20, 2022, at 7pm, and through prior planning, ISIS terrorists launched an attack on Al-Sina’a prison, where thousands of ISIS mercenaries are being held, and many suicide groups joined the attack as well.

The SDF General Command revealed on January 31 the details of the ISIS attack on Al-Sina’a prison, and the forces supporting the attack, as well as military and civilian martyrs and mercenaries’ deaths. 

The SDF statement said, “If this attack were to succeed, their plan would have been to continue their attack on the neighborhoods of Ghweran and Al-Zhour as well as some of the civilian and military Autonomous Administration institutions in the area, and that was exactly the plan they wanted to implement.”

“The ISIS attack was not an ordinary attack, it came from a broad plan that had been prepared for a long time. According to the seized documents, as well as ISIS confessions, if their attack on Al- Sina’a prison had succeeded, they would have launched attacks on other neighborhoods in Hasaka, as well as their attacks on areas of al-Hol, al-Shadada, and Deir ez-Zor, and they would have been able to put their broad plan into action to announce its alleged caliphate, which has been falsely called the “Second Islamic State”,” the SDF said.

According to the SDF, “Al- Sina’a prison attack was not a local one, it did not aim to liberate a number of terrorist detainees only. Rather, they wanted to launch a massive attack on the region, once again to spread their terror of killing and impose darkness on the people of the region, and revive ISIS once again. But the plan failed in the end. Once again, as happened in “Al-Baghouz”, they collectively surrendered themselves to our forces, and we imposed control over the situation completely.”

According to the information and the confessions, some of the ISIS cells came from the occupied areas such as Serêkaniyê / Ras al-Ain and Girê Spî / Tal Abyad, and another part came from Iraq as support for them. But the plan and the operations room, according to the documents, were prepared outside the Syrian borders.

The SDF anounced the outcome of the prison attack as follows: “The mercenaries of the terrorist organization “ISIS” within the prison brutally killed 77 employees of prison institutions and guards. In the clashes and battles outside the prison, which lasted for seven days, 40 of our fighters were martyred. And 4 citizens rose to the rank of martyrdom. In the overall outcome of the “Hammer of the Peoples” campaign, 121 SDF fighters and prison workers fell as martyrs while the death toll of ISIS terrorists stood at 374.”

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