Syria Calls on UNSC to Condemn Terrorists’ Crime of Beheading Palestinian Child in Aleppo Countryside

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Syria has urged the United Nations and the Security Council to condemn the terrorist “Nour al-Din al-Zenki” Movement’s crime of beheading a 12 years old Palestinian child in a camp hosting Palestinian refugees near Aleppo province. Syria has also urged condemnation of all the crimes being committed by the terrorist organizations against civilians in Syria.

 In two identical letters addressing the UN Chief and President of the Security Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said ” terrorists of the “Nour al-Din al-Zenki” Movement, which is classified by some countries as “moderate opposition groups”, on Tuesday beheaded a 12 years old Palestinian boy in cold blood amid acclamation and cheers by some movement members who were watching and filming the crime.”

The video shots filmed by terrorists and published on the internet showed the child wearing civilian clothes with wounds and bruises on his hands and surrounded by a group of terrorists in a small truck, the ministry added.

It pointed out that another video showed one of the terrorists claiming that the child was a fighter within the ranks of the Palestinian “al-Quds Brigade” and was captured within the ongoing battles in Handarat camp, northern Aleppo.

The ministry went on to say that according to locals, the beheaded child is a Palestinian called Abdalla Issa and he is one of the remaining locals of Handarat camp for Palestinian refugees in Aleppo. He was captured by the terrorist movement and presented as a combatant in the “Palestinian al-Quds Brigade”, a claim that was denied by the brigade’s members.  

The ministry said that the government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the horrible crime committed against the innocent child by Nour al-Din al-Zenki terrorist Movement which backed and funded by the regimes in Riyadh, Doha, Ankara and the US administration and other Western countries that call such groups “moderate opposition groups”.

It added that the Syrian government urges the United Nations and the Security Council to condemn this crime and all the crimes being committed against the Syrian civilians and against the Palestinian camps in Syria and calls on the Security Council  to assume its responsibility in keeping international peace and security through adopting punitive measures against the countries and regimes that support and fund terrorism and through forcing these countries to abide by relevant UN resolutions.

Hamda Mustafa