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Two children killed in Turkish air strike on Iraqi Kurdistan as global silence continues

TWO children were killed and at least 10 injured in a Turkish air strike on Amedi district in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday evening as the international silence continues. 

Video footage appeared to show Kurdish villagers fleeing a Turkish drone attack in which a five-year-old child and a 14-year-old boy were killed. 

A six-year-old child was among those injured in the bombardment and was taken to a hospital in Bamarne. 

Eyewitnesses said that it was a Turkish air strike and believed that the missiles were fired by unmanned aerial vehicles or jets.  

Mukhtar of Zewa village Birqi Omar said that families were picnicking when they came under attack. 

“Turkey bombed our families, killing two people, aged 10, and injuring another,” he said.

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) affiliated intelligence services sought to shift blame for the attack on to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

They accused the Kurdish resistance group of “firing two rockets on the village of Ardana in Bamarni sector” of Amedi, saying two minors were killed and two injured.

But the claims were contradicted by the father of one of the boys killed in the air strike who was adamant that “Turkish jets did this, Turkey bombs Kurdish children,” saying he witnessed the attack. 

The KDP is allied with Turkey in its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan. 

Its peshmerga forces have launched attacks on guerilla bases and given co-ordinates of PKK positions to the Turkish armed forces. 

The PKK accused the regionally dominant Barzani-led party of attempting to “whitewash Turkey’s war crimes” in northern Iraq.

Turkey has been accused of a litany of atrocities since it launched its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2021.

This has included the alleged use of chemical weapons, with around 500 reported attacks in the past year, 70 of which are claimed to have taken place last week alone. 

Investigations by the Morning Star have revealed a shocking cover-up of the attacks with medics threatened by KDP forces into changing their expert reports after treating patients for symptoms consistent with exposure to chemicals. 

One person was killed in the latest Turkish missile strike on a refugee camp last weekend which critics insist is a war crime. 

Two civilians and three PKK guerillas were killed the same day as two cars were targeted in Chamchamal, deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan. 

PKK commander Cemil Bayik said this week that Britain, the US and Nato were fully behind Turkey’s war on Kurds and the use of chemical weapons.  

“Nato is actively involved in this war which is why this is a war against Nato,” he said.

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