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Dear friends, sisters and comrades:
Today is the 10th February, and here is our daily update from Rojava, from the heart of the women’s revolution.
Kobani is still under siege and entering into its 22 day. There are 200,000 forcibly displaced residents who are being accommodated at 70 different locations in Kobani. Living conditions are incredibly hard and resources are scares due to the siege.
However we are starting to see small progress with the beginnings of the Syrian Transitional Government troops withdrawing from one of the fronts in the countryside of Kobani. A meeting was held yesterday with the SDF and the transitional government, where they discussed methods and mechanisms for the integration of the Kobani internal security forces into the Aleppo governorate.
We wanted to share news from the rest of Syria.
In idlib, a city in the west of Syria that has been under the STG since Asad fell in 2024, there have been continues protests and strikes. Teachers from 113 schools are on strike demanding that their salaries be raised in line with rising living costs. At the same time, local residents have been organizing mass protests against deficiencies in basic services such as electricity, water, and condition of roads. Demonstrators called on the Syrian Transitional government to fulfil its responsibilities, demanding solutions to the problems and accountability from those responsible.
As you heard in our previous daily updates we have also been seeing protests around the STG controlled areas of Syria about the raising of oil and gas prices. We know that when society is self governed and democratically organised, resources can be used to meet people needs first. Distribution of resources was never perfect under DAANES, we’re not trying to create a Utopian vision, but as the goal in a self-organized economy is to fulfill the peoples needs and not to create profit, there is the potential for true fairness.
Tension remains high in Suwayda- in the south of Syria. Residents of Suwayda condemned the attacks by the Syrian transitional government in, which killed 4 people recently.
The deliberate targeting of civilians reflects the ongoing danger.
Israel is making more and more incursions into Syria. Israel often uses times of internal conflict in Syria as an opportunity to take territory, set up check points or conduct military activity. Today the Israeli military released details of their recent air strikes and ground incursions into the Damascus countryside. Israeli forces have also set up road blocks to halt traffic in the south of Syria. And yesterday they arrested three young Syrian men.
This is not new, and we know one of reasons Jolani was put into power by western power was to strengthen the Israeli state’s power in the long run. On the 6th January, the day the attacks in Aleppo started, the Syrian transitional government had meetings in Paris with the Israeli state, mediated by the US, to increase collaboration. An important part of the western states plan to continue to control the middle east is to have an Israeli aligned Syrian state. We must understand the international conspiracy that is happening in Syria right now as a much broader political plan, and continually reject whenever it is portrayed as a region conflict only.
The people here know that an international conspiracy is at play and are taking strong stances to reaffirm their continues resistance.
There were mass rallies across the Jaziera canton and Hesake today. The people gathered to show their loud support for the resistance in Rojava and to show that they will not accept loosing any of the achievements of the Rojava Revolution. Waving YPJ and YPG flags and chanting long live the Rojava resistance, the people came together making clear, the women’s revolution lives!
Around the world, international solidarity continues. It is important to continue:
So raise your voices loud and tell the world about the women’s revolution! The revolution for a free life!
And with that we send you revolutionary greetings from Rojava.
