Eyewitnesses from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo report ongoing incidents of looting, theft, and intimidation at gunpoint against the remaining Kurdish residents.
According to available information, gunmen believed to be affiliated with factions of Syria’s transitional government stormed the home of a Kurdish family consisting of five members. The assailants entered the house under threat of weapons and looted all the property of the family, including mobile phones, and stole an amount of 250,000 Syrian pounds and everything the family owned.
The incident comes amid ongoing practices of systematic looting, theft, and intimidation targeting Kurdish families in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods. Local human rights organizations view these acts as attempts to force Kurdish residents to migrate and abandon their homes, in the absence of accountability and the rule of law.
These crimes follow the violent attack on the two neighborhoods on 6 January, which was accompanied by massacres against civilians and widespread destruction of property and infrastructure.