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SULAIMANI
— Residents of Sinjar district are fleeing renewed clashes between Iraqi forces
and the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) that broke out on Sunday (May 1) night,
local sources report.
At least
50 families have been displaced due to clashes between the two forces, the head
of the Kurdistan Migration and Displacement Media Office in Duhok, Karwan Zaki,
told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Monday (May 2)
Ezidi
Press announced hundreds of people were fleeing and civilians in the village of Dugure were calling to be evacuated
while all the main roads there are blocked.
A local
source informed NRT fighting broke out between the 72nd Brigade of
the Iraqi army and the YBS. An NRT reporter stated the clashes were ongoing in
Sinune sub-district in the north of Sinjar and the Iraqi army has brought heavy
equipment.
A member
of Iraqi forces was killed in fighting between Iraqi forces and the YBS in
Sinjar on Monday, AA said. Anadolu stated clashes broke out when the YBS
refused to withdraw from checkpoints in Sinjar.
Ezidi Press
said the Iraqi military carried out air strikes on YBS bases in Sinjar.
Residents reported the sound of a large explosion in Sinjar city’s old market
but the cause of the blast was not confirmed.
Nadia
Murad, a Ezidi UN Goodwill Ambassador and Nobel Laureate from Sinjar, called on
the international community to protect civilians in the district.
"After
years of displacement, recent returnees are once again forced to flee their
homes due to current armed clashes in Sinjar,” Murad said.
The UN
Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), also expressed concern over the renewed
clashes, stating "security should be front and center.”
"Domestic
and external spoilers have no place in Sinjar,” UNAMI stated.
The Iraqi
army deployed additional troops to Sinjar last week. Members of both Iraqi
forces and the YBS were wounded in clashes between the two forces that broke
out on April 18.
(NRT Digital
Media)