Jenderes, Rojava – On Friday, August 8, 2025, the village of Dewa Fawqani in Jenderes sub-district in rural Afrin witnessed an incident of death threats carried out by settlers against the villagers, according to the human rights organization Afrin-Syria.
The organization stated that the Kurdish citizen Farid Hassan, 65 years old, went to the tent of the settler called “Abu Ward”, who comes from the village of Salwa in the countryside of Idlib, to discuss a financial debt owed to him of 50 US dollars, with the aim of calming the situation after harassment and threats from the latter. While waiting dozens of meters from the tent, Farid had a verbal altercation with another settler who falsely accused him of “harming their women,” which strained the situation.
On the same evening, at about 6:30 p.m., Abu Ward led a group of more than 15 settlers riding motorcycles and carrying firearms, threatening the villagers with death and putting weapons on their heads. The organization quoted Abu Ward as telling his group: “You must kill at least one of the Kurds,” amid the group’s enlargements. The women of the village went out to defend their families against these threats.
General Security officers intervened from the Jinderes sub-district center to calm the situation, but they only conducted reconciliation between the two parties the next day without taking legal or preventive measures such as confiscating weapons or arresting settlers. This response provoked the condemnation of the people, who expressed their anger at the inaction of the General Security and their fear for their lives in the face of the threats of armed settlers, while the people remain isolated and peaceful.
The Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization called on the concerned authorities to intervene quickly to “put an end to the actions of the settlers and remove them from the village to avoid undesirable problems in the future.”
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