(10 Dec 2024)
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Tartab base, Qamishli, Syria – 10 December 2024
1. Damage to ammunition trucks, people looking at aftermath
2. Rockets and projectiles scattered on ground
3. Kurdish fighter standing next to burned trucks
4. Artillery shell on ground
5. Villager holding unexploded rocket
6. Scattered ammunition on highway, people gathered at the scene
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim al-Thalaj, eyewitness from the area around the base:
“It was yesterday evening, around 9:00 or 8:30 when we just heard the sound of explosions in this area. We didn’t know which direction it was from. Today, we were surprised that it was on the highway. They said it was Israeli planes which targeted these vehicles. We don’t know the story. It was just in the morning when we realised they were trucks loaded with ammunition, leftovers from the former army, the regime.”
8. Members of Syrian Democratic Forces standing on road leading to Tartab base
9. Various of military truck inside base
10. Wide of Syrian army base in Tartab
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamid al-Asaad, eyewitness from Qub al-Zeki village in Qamishli:
"We just felt a hit (strike) taking place. It hit the first one (truck) and we saw the other trucks retreating. And from there, rockets and shells started to follow. In the beginning, we thought it was a convoy of oil tankers. After we saw it, it turned out that it was not an oil convoy. Our houses and farms are situated near here. We came out of our houses and escaped to other areas as shells started falling on and around the houses."
12. Various of house that was hit in Tartab village
13. Man looking at damage inside his house
14. Shrapnel found inside house
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud al-Hamza, Tartab village resident:
“It was around 9:00 or 10:00 (p.m.). We were sitting in the house and suddenly we felt this explosion. We were sitting when these explosions started to hit the house. The explosions were hitting randomly, and we didn’t know where they were coming from, but it was coming from the direction of the road. This is what happened to us. And once we got out of our house, this rocket hit the house.”
16. Burned truck on road
17. Villagers looking at burned trucks
18. People passing by burned truck on highway
STORYLINE:
Residents of the area around Qamishli airport in northeast Syria reported hearing violent explosions overnight after an airstrike hit trucks loaded with ammunitions and rockets that were heading to a military base in Tartab.
"We don’t know the story. It was just in the morning when we realised they were trucks loaded with ammunition, leftovers from the former army, the regime," said Ibrahim al-Thalaj, who lives near the base.
He said residents assumed that the strikes were Israeli.
Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria targeting military infrastructure after a shock offensive by Syrian insurgents toppled the government of Bashar Assad.
However, Turkish security officials said Tuesday that the strike in Qamishli was carried out by Turkey, targeting weapons and ammunition that were abandoned by the Syrian army and seized by Syrian Kurdish militants.
The explosions lasted for over 20 minutes after the strike, and many houses in the surrounding area were damaged as a result, residents of the area said.
"We just felt a hit (strike) taking place. It hit the first one (truck) and we saw the other trucks retreating. And from there, rockets and shells started to follow," said Hamid al-Asaad, an eyewitness from Qub al-Zeki village in Qamishli.
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