The repression carrying out by the invading Turkish army and its mercenary allies against civilians in Afrin continues.

The Turkish army and its mercenaries raid people's houses every day and kidnap scores of civilians.

According to local sources, the mercenaries carried out a series of raids on Kurdish houses in the provinces of Şera, Mabata and Cindirês. Ten civilians were kidnapped.

Cemil Rifat Cafer, Xelîl Simahîl Hakîm and Zehnî İbrahim Zehinî were kidnapped following house raids in the village of Mamila in the district of Mabeta on 11 July.

On the same day, the Turkish state-linked Cebhet al-Sham mercenaries, kidnapped Mustafa Hisên Yasin and Tahir Abdu Nasan.

On 12 July, the Turkish state's Sirta Asker mercenary group also kidnapped some Kurdish civilians named locally as Kemal Salha Reşîd and Nûrî Reşîd, who lived in the village of Remadîyê in Cindirês.

Local sources reported that the occupants also kidnapped some civilians named Hanif Fehmi Arif, Ciwan Welîd Horo and Mustafa İbrahim İbrahim during the house raids in the village of Dîkmetaş in the district of Şera.