A protest in Al-Hasakah in condemnation of Turkish occupation’s continued cutting of drinking water supplies to more than a million citizens 

People of the city of Hasakah organized today a protest stand to reject the continued violations of the Turkish occupation and its humanitarian crime against a million citizens who are threatened with thirst as a result of cutting off drinking water and controlling the pumping of water from Alouk station, the only source of drinking water.

The participants in the protests that took place in the President’s Square in the center of the city of Hasakah raised banners carrying phrases denouncing the arbitrary and criminal practices of the American and Turkish occupation against citizens.

In a statement to SANA reporter, member of the People’s Assembly, Abd al-Rahman Khalil, stated that what is being committed today is a crime against humanity and a violation of all international norms and conventions. The international community must intervene with all its bodies and institutions to stop the Turkish occupier, especially since the Alouk station is the only source of drinking water for more than a million citizens. He pointed out that the continuation of the violations will threaten the region with a humanitarian catastrophe that includes diseases and epidemics.

In turn, Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Syrian Communist Party in Al-Jazeera, Fawaz Al-Dibs, said: Today’s sit-in is directed against the American and Turkish occupations and all their criminal methods aimed at starving and thirsting us in an attempt to undermine the will of the Syrian people, stressing that resisting the occupiers is a national duty to expel them from our land, which they openly plundered.

The participants in the protests sent a message to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in which they expressed their condemnation and denunciation of all kinds of occupations that are targeting the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, foremost of which are the American and Turkish occupiers who plunder the governorate’s resources of wheat, oil and gas, and the Turkish occupier who prevents drinking water for a million citizens of the province.

Participants stressed that these practices constitute war crimes that completely contradict the most basic human rights and constitute a flagrant violation of all international laws and covenants.

Inas Abdulkareem