PKK/YPG terrorist organization and its Syrian branches in 2024 recruited more than 286 children in Syria. This is stated in the UN report.
The 40-page document notes that PKK/YPG and branches are responsible for the death or disability of 110 minors in 2024.
According to the report, the terrorists used 23 schools and hospitals for their armed activities.
as of the end of 2024, due to ties with armed groups, primarily Deash, in Syria, about 1000 minors, including foreigners, were subjected to restriction of freedom.
About 25 thousand children associated with the DeASH terrorist organization, have been living in camps in the northeast of Syria for years controlled by PKK/YPG.
The UN report states that the militants of the HPG/PKK terrorist organization acting in Iraq also recruited 7 children in their ranks, abducting six of them for this purpose.
The report includes the words of the UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterris, who expressed concern about the inclusion of children in the ranks of armed groups. “I am extremely concerned about the use of children as militants by HPG/PKK. I urge these formations to stop using children for military purposes and immediately free them,” the words of the Secretary General.