 Eyewitnesses and relatives of the innocent civilian victims killed during the US aggression against al-Sukkariah Farm in Abu Kamal recounted the details of the attack by US soldiers, refuting the allegations used by the US armed forces to justify this crime.
Souad al-Jassem, who miraculously survived the massacre after witnessing her husband's murder and seeing one of her children being injured, said "We were surprised at five in the evening when two helicopters landed near where we live. A number of American soldiers, some of which spoke Arabic, came out of the helicopters and entered the tent where I live with my children and husband, who works as groundkeeper for the building."
She pointed out that her children panicked and tried to run away when the soldiers entered, and as soon as she headed towards her children and tried to calm them down, the soldiers opened fire without provocation. The soldiers then opened fires on construction workers who were doing their job at the site, killing seven of them. The US forces left the site after firing on a fisherman outside the building.
Souad had fainted during the attack, waking up in the hospital where she learned that her husband died in the attack. Her husband worked as a groundskeeper in the building to support his family.
Relatives of some of the other victims affirmed that they worked in construction and that was the only reason for them being at that area, adding that the targeted site is in the middle of an agricultural area and part of a new farm under construction directly on the banks of River Euphrates. All areas near the site are agricultural lands.
Four US Army helicopters had violated the Syrian airspace over Abu Kamal area on Sunday evening, targeting a civilian building and killing eight civilians. Afterwards, the helicopters returned to Iraqi airspace.
Syria had condemned and denounced this act of aggression, holding the US forces responsible for it and all of its ramifications and demanding that the Iraqi government bear responsibility and investigate this immediately, in addition to demanding that the Iraqi lands never be used to attack Syria.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry summoned the Charge d 'Affairs at the US Embassy in Damascus, informing her of Syria's condemnation of this dangerous attack, holding the US administration fully responsible for it. The Iraqi Charge d'affaires was also summoned to the Foreign Ministry for the same purpose.
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