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Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

Press Release

Our forces are simultaneously employing modern guerrilla tactics and securing terrain sovereignty with mobile units. The occupiers continue to be dealt hard blows through comprehensive actions.

In effective and highly sacrificial actions, 15 occupiers were punished and two others were injured. In addition, a position and a surveillance camera system were destroyed. Our forces also seized military equipment belonging to the occupation forces.

The details of the actions taken are as follows;

1. In Avaşîn region;

– On April 29, at 14:30 and 19:45, the invaders around the Werxelê Resistance Area were targeted and shot by our forces. The number of invaders punished and injured as a result of these actions could not be clarified. On the same day, between 10:30 and 15:30, the invading Turkish army bombed the Resistance Area with chemical weapons, explosives and attack helicopters.

2. In the Zap region;

– On April 22, the invaders who attempted to advance towards the war positions of Girê Martyr Hemrîn in the Şehîd Şahîn Resistance Area were taken under control by our forces and shot at close range. In this action, 1 invader punished and our forces seized the military equipment of the invaders.

– On April 29, the invaders located around the Şehîd Berxwedan battle positions of the Şehîd Şahin Resistance Area were followed by our mobile field teams. The invaders, who were put under control, were shot in 4 sides with a coordinated guerrilla action at 18:30 on the same day. Our forces targeted a position belonging to the invaders from two sides with the infiltration tactic and hit them with hand grenades and individual weapons. The targeted position was destroyed and 5 invaders were punished. The invaders who attempted to intervene in the action area were targeted by the second and third action arms and 7 invaders were punished. At the same time, the mobesse camera system of the invaders in the area was destroyed.

As a result of this successful action carried out by our mobile guerrilla teams, 12 invaders were punished, 1 position and 1 camera system were destroyed. The invaders, who bombarded the area with attack helicopters after the action, were able to remove their casualties from the area with helicopters at night.

– On April 29, at 13:30, the invaders who wanted to attack the Kurojahro Resistance Area with chemical weapons and explosives were targeted by our forces and hit with sabotage tactics. As a result of the action, 1 invader was punished. At 14:00 on the same day, the invaders were targeted and shot with heavy weapons, and the number of punished and injured invaders could not be determined. After these actions, the invaders heavily bombed the Resistance Area.

– On April 29, at 13:00, the invaders around the Girê Şehîd Şemdîn battle positions in the Kurojahro Resistance Area were targeted with heavy weapons by our YJA Star forces. As a result of this action, 2 invaders were injured.

– On April 29, at 22:00, the invaders around the Girê Rûbar battle positions were targeted and shot by our forces and 1 camera system was destroyed.

– On April 29, at 09:30, the invaders in the vicinity of Kevirêkun in the Şikefta Birîndara Resistance Area were targeted by our forces and 1 invader was punished.

3. On April 29, at 18:30, the slopes of Girê Zengil in the Garê region were bombed with warplanes.

– On April 29, between 17:00 and 22:30, the Girê Cûdî, Şehîd Kendal, Şehîd Zagros, and Şehîd Şîlan areas in the Zap region were bombed by howitzers, mortars and warplanes 6 times dropped from the outposts on the border line.

– On April 29, the areas of Çemço, Kunîşka, Sîda, Şikefta Birîndara, Çiyareş, Girê Şehîd Cûdî and Girê Ortê in the Zap region were bombed 17 times with howitzers fired from the outposts on the border line.

April 30, 2022

HPG Press Centre