A UNDP charity partner released statistics indicating that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces and the Global Coalition forces destroyed tens of houses in the village of al-Badia in Jabal Abdul Aziz area, west of Hasaka. The news comes ahead of plans to rebuild the village for the local population to return to their homes.
According to sources, a survey team from the Syrian al-Yamamah Charitable Association in al-Hasakah surveyed 50 houses that were destroyed as a result of the fighting and the PYD militants’ vandalizing actions in the village of al-Badia in Jabal Abdul Aziz region. The sources pointed out that the survey is part of a project implemented by the UNDP in partnership with the Association to rebuild the damaged houses in the village.
The sources pointed out that houses in other villages in the area were also destroyed by the PYD fighters, the most notable being al-Rihaniyah, al-Aghabish, and Tel al-Hamam among others.
On several occasions, the PYD and its supporters denied accusations made against them of burning houses and destroying Arab villages in rural al-Hasakah as acts of revenge or theft, although international human rights organizations have documented many cases.
Arab residents say they fled their homes after the PYD fighters launched an attack on their villages in the areas of Jabal Abdul Aziz, Tal Tamr and al-Mabrouka west of al-Hasakah amid terrifying bombardment by the Global Coalition aircrafts on the area. Al-Mabrouka was in the control of the Islamic State forces for a year.
The attack resulted in the complete or partial destruction of these villages. The PYD militants looted the content of houses, burnt some houses and destroyed them preventing the return of their inhabitants.
The PYD fighters tightened their control on the entire Jabal Abdul Aziz area after bloody confrontations with the Islamic State forces and effective support from the Global Coalition on May 20, 2015. The area is famous as the stronghold of the al-Baggara Arab tribe.
It must be noted that five militias subordinate to the PYD allied with Jaish al-Thuwar, and al-Jazeera Brigades within the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance in October 2015 with support from the United States to fight the Islamic State forces.
