Aleppo – Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafiyah

⚠️ Dozens have suffered from severe suffocation after forces of the Transitional Government (de facto authority) fired tear gas at protesters, along with random live gunfire.

📌 The situation remains tense, as residents continue their peaceful protests and civil resistance.

⚠️ Concise Legal Background

Since the seizure of power by the de facto authority, led by Ahmad Al-Shara (Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani) in Syria in December 2025, vast areas of the country have witnessed a recurrent and systematic pattern of serious violations against Alawites, Druze, Christians, and other religious minorities. These violations have been perpetrated by forces affiliated with the Ministry of Interior (General Security apparatus) and the Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, as well as by civilian individuals loyal to the authority.

Documented abuses have targeted all civilian age groups, including children, women, and the elderly, and include:

1. Mass killings, summary executions, and other forms of unlawful killing, including extrajudicial executions;

2. Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including physical assault and sexual violence;

3. Arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, and abduction;

4. Deliberate destruction of livelihoods, including the burning of forests, agricultural lands, villages, and civilian property, resulting in forced displacement;

5. Forcible seizure of homes, confiscation of private property, and deliberate impoverishment;

6. Looting and destruction of civilian property;

7. Attacks against places of worship and the destruction of religious property;

8. Discrimination and persecution on religious, sectarian, and political grounds;

9. Institutionalized discrimination and persecution;

10. Deprivation of liberty, including imprisonment accompanied by torture or ill-treatment in detention facilities;

11. Mass arrests, sham judicial proceedings, and forced confessions obtained under torture;

12. Collective and arbitrary dismissal of civilian employees, economic persecution, and denial of access to public employment;

13. Hate crimes and incitement to violence;

14. Systematic incitement and institutionalized media disinformation;

15. Repression and use of force against peaceful demonstrations;

16. Institutional assaults, fabrication of security justifications, manufactured charges, and attacks carried out under false pretexts;

17. Denial of violations, destruction or concealment of evidence, and obstruction of accountability mechanisms.

The systematic and widespread nature of these acts, coupled with their deliberate targeting of specific religious groups, indicates the existence of an organized policy or practice of persecution; such acts may amount to crimes against humanity and religious persecution under international law and customary international humanitarian law.

📝 Details:

The footage shows scenes of shelling using heavy artillery and mortar shells by Unit 72 of the terrorist Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, targeting the Sheikh Maqsoud and Al-Ashrafieh neighborhoods, both of which are predominantly Kurdish in the heart of Aleppo.
The shelling has resulted in numerous civilian casualties, including wounded and martyrs, due to falling shells.
The documentation also includes a video from a distance showing the neighborhoods under continuous shelling, in addition to two other videos showing bursts of heavy weapon fire (23 mm) and small arms targeting buildings.
These details are reported to clarify that the Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority targets residential neighborhoods with all available combat means.

🤍 Our prayers for the safety and speedy recovery of the injured, and mercy upon the martyrs🕊

Documentation of a University Dormitory Targeted by Terrorist Factions within the Ministry of Defense of the De Facto Authority, Led by Al-Joulani (Ahmed Al-Sharaa)

The University Dormitory – Unit 19 in Aleppo was targeted by a mortar shell fired by terrorist factions within the Syrian Ministry of Defense.

According to incoming footage, photography of the shell impact site was prohibited due to the presence of Ministry of Defense personnel affiliated with the de facto authority, who enforced strict instructions of “no filming allowed.”

This incident highlights the continued systematic targeting of residential and university areas by terrorist factions under the ruling authority, endangering civilian lives and constituting a gross violation of international humanitarian law.

🔴 #Important || From the page of Archimandrite Tony Makhallili, Episcopal Vicar General of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate in #Aleppo

He confirms that the sites being labeled by the so-called “Ministry of Defense of the terrorist de facto authority” as “military targets to be struck” are in fact church endowments, housing more than 40 civilian families.

These places are being targeted under the false pretext that they are “military targets affiliated with the SDF”, a blatant and false claim, constituting a documented crime against civilians.

The neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid in the city of Aleppo are witnessing a severe and critical shortage of essential medical supplies, in addition to a lack of certain medical specialties.

This situation coincides with the continued intense shelling by the Ministry of Defense affiliated with the de facto terrorist authority targeting residential neighborhoods, which has exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe and exposed the lives of thousands of civilians—including children, patients, and the elderly—to a real and escalating danger.

The ongoing absence of essential medicines, along with the lack of any safe humanitarian corridor provided by an international humanitarian body to deliver basic necessities or evacuate critical medical cases, warns of an imminent humanitarian disaster whose consequences cannot be averted.

Documented footage shows terrorist factions affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the Damascus government under the de facto authority carrying out the arrest and arbitrary detention of Kurdish civilians in the Al-Ashrafieh neighborhood of Aleppo.

📹 Visual documentation details:
The footage shows several civilians being forced to kneel on the ground, before being restrained and detained under degrading conditions, in a clear violation of the fundamental rights of civilians.

🗣️ Hate speech accompanying the violation:
The arrests are accompanied by verbal abuse and dehumanizing language, with victims being subjected to racist and degrading slurs, including:
• “Pigs”
• “Straps”

These acts constitute arbitrary detention, degrading treatment, and serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

Jihadists members of the Ministry of Defense of the Transitional Government – De Facto Authority carried out an extrajudicial execution of two staff members from Othman Hospital in Aleppo’s Al-Ashrafieh neighborhood, following the raid by terrorist factions on the area last Thursday.

📌 Victim Details:
• Dr. Ali Hanif Othman – born 1989 – pharmacist at the hospital – Kurdish
• Adnan Aref Othman – born 1968 – hospital technician – Kurdish

📍 Location of Execution: inside Othman Hospital, following strikes with several RPGs and the subsequent storming of the hospital by the terrorist-aligned Ministry of Defense fighters.

🔎 Incident Sequence:
• The two victims, along with a third person, were detained inside the hospital.
• Attempts by their families to contact authorities for information revealed, with photo evidence, that the victims were executed by gunfire inside the hospital.
• Relatives confirm that the victims were civilians, unarmed, with no affiliation to any military or political group, and were performing their duties providing medical care to the wounded.

⚠️ Legal Assessment:
This act constitutes a clear war crime, violating all national and international laws, conventions, and customary norms, and is condemned under all local and international instruments protecting civilians and medical facilities.

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📅 Period: The past four days
📍 Location: Kurdish neighborhoods – Aleppo

This documentation exposes the reality of the de facto authority and its affiliates: its leaders, operatives, and supporters.

The de facto authority emerged from the remnants of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, encompassing terrorists who continue to carry out acts of terror without any restraint on Syrian territory, targeting its diverse communities along sectarian lines. They have thrown civilians from heights, killed children, raped minors, and executed civilians in cold blood on camera, as seen previously in Sweida and the coastal region.
• Over the past four days, Kurdish neighborhoods have been subjected to intense and continuous shelling with tanks, Grad rockets, and all types of heavy weaponry.
• Missiles and shells targeted all areas within and around the neighborhoods, aiming to terrorize civilians and enforce forced displacement through brute force.
• Following the shelling, attacking factions attempted a ground advance with over 100 tanks and armored vehicles, dozens of military vehicles, and thousands of militants, supported directly by drone strikes and under heavy fire cover.

The jihadist-Daesh ideology runs deep within these factions and their allies. Yesterday, celebrations were documented glorifying the “elimination of Kurds,” based on false narratives they believed, accompanied by chants of victory, blessings of violations, and prayers for the perpetrators—constituting societal legitimization of crimes and a hate discourse rooted in ethnic and sectarian identity.

It is evident that the goal is a Syria devoid of all communities, groups, and sects, achieved through systematic killings and sectarian incitement, grounded in Ibn Taymiyyah’s fatwas and deep-seated sectarian hatred.

#Aleppo #KurdishNeighborhoods #WarCrimes #Documentation

📅 Timeframe: Over four consecutive days of ongoing attacks
📍 Targeted Areas:
Residential neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid – Aleppo

👥 Civilian Context:
These are densely populated residential areas, home to more than 600,000 civilians.

A large-scale terrorist assault has been documented, involving the extensive use of heavy and medium weaponry, including tanks, heavy artillery, Grad and Katyusha rocket launchers, mortar shells, and various types of DShK heavy machine guns, as detailed below:

🔴 Documented Military Details:
• Estimated number of terrorist fighters (Ministry of Defense forces): approx. 42,000
• Tanks: around 110 tanks documented so far
• Aerial assets:
• 4 Turkish Bayraktar UAVs
• 68 loitering (suicide) drones
• Long-range artillery: deployed from Al-Hamdaniyah, Infantry School, and Aleppo countryside near Al-Muslimiyah
• Armored vehicles: extremely large numbers (not fully counted)
• Rocket launchers: extremely large numbers (not fully counted)
• DShK heavy machine guns: extremely large numbers (not fully counted)

🪖 Units Participating in the Terrorist Operations:
• Division 60
• Division 62
• Division 72
• Division 86

🚨 Additional Reinforcements Arrived From:
• Northern and southern Aleppo countryside
• Idlib and its countryside
• Al-Rastan (Homs)
• Northern Hama countryside
• So-called “General Security” units from Aleppo and Idlib
• Units known as “Internal Security A1”
• Engineering units
• So-called “Counter-Terrorism” units

⚠️ All of this military force has been deployed against civilian residential neighborhoods, facing only approximately 300 fighters from the Asayish forces, who continue to resist the assault and defend civilian areas against a brutal attack lacking any military or legal justification.

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🎥 Incident: Armed factions of the Syrian government’s Ministry of Defense launched a violent attack on Khalid Fajr Hospital, the only healthcare facility in Sheikh Maqsoud, using drones, gas bombs, and tear gas, resulting in a humanitarian catastrophe and risk of mass casualties among civilians, including women, children, and the elderly.

⚠️ Humanitarian Situation:
• Hundreds of wounded civilians are at risk, including women, children, and elderly people.
• Repeated cases of suffocation inside the hospital due to shelling, gas, and tear gas.
• Dozens of civilians remain trapped inside the hospital, amid repeated appeals to halt the attack and ensure the protection of civilians, the injured, and medical staff.

📌 Notes:
• The attack constitutes a blatant violation of international laws and norms protecting medical facilities and civilians during armed conflicts.
• The hospital remains the only healthcare facility in the neighborhood, making any attack on it a clear war crime.

#Aleppo #SheikhMaqsoud #KhalidFajrHospital #WarCrimes #HumanRightsDocumentation

The university dormitory in the city of Aleppo was directly targeted by a mortar shell fired by terrorist factions affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Defense under the de facto authority led by Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Jolani).

This attack constitutes a direct assault on a civilian educational facility and confirms a systematic pattern of targeting residential and university areas, endangering the lives of civilians and students. It represents a grave violation of international humanitarian law and the rules governing the protection of civilians during armed conflicts.

Terrorist factions affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the Damascus government (the de facto authority) vandalized and destroyed a shop selling alcoholic beverages in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood following their takeover of the area.

This act forms part of a systematic pattern of violations targeting civilian property and personal freedoms, reflecting an extremist ideological approach based on repression, destruction, and the imposition of a coercive way of life on the civilian population.