Tel Tamir, Syria<\/p>\n Dear friends, <\/span><\/p>\n The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Turks have now pushed their way to within four kilometers (2.5 miles) north of Tel Tamir. The Turkish-supported FSA has come down with foot soldiers, DShKs, Turkish armored and personnel carriers. There are at least two Turkish tanks and three Turkish APCs on the assault. As of the\u00a0evening of Oct.\u00a031, the offensive has stopped as there are talks between Russian, Turkey, and Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n The FSA, many of whom are jihadis from ISIS or al-Nusra or al-Qaeda or others are absolutely vicious and brutal, as you can see by posts they do themselves of executing medics and executing women and torturing and mutilating people. No Christian, Kurd or Muslim that was here can stay because they will be suspected of supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) or the Assad regime.<\/span><\/p>\n Here, in this zone of invasion and death and displacement, over 300,000 people have been forced to flee the Turkish border down to Tel Tamir and other areas to the east and west of the city because of the Turkish invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the course of Oct. 30-31, most people (over 3,000) fled Tel Tamir\u00a0and now less\u00a0then 200 Christians remain. We spoke with them and they said they will have to flee if the Turks\/FSA keep coming. Unless there is some agreement or massive reinforcement with armor, Tel Tamir will be lost in the next few days. Right now, it\u2019s still holding and still relatively safe. There have been Turkish airstrikes from drones every day but so far no big airstrikes or fighter jets.<\/span><\/p>\n On Oct. 31, we went forward to try to see if we could establish a forward casualty collection point (CCP), but we found that that point had already been lost and the second point had only four people and they were going to retreat. So, we pulled back a little and began small-arms taking fire, just enough to know that the FSA had seen us in this open, flat road. We pulled back again to a position a little closer to Tel Tamir and set up a mobile CCP.\u00a0 <\/span>At the CCP we get wounded, treat and stabilize as best we can, and then transport them back to the hospital in Tel Tamir. <\/span><\/p>\n Many of the Syrian Army has dropped back. On Oct. 31, we watched a Syrian gun jeep drive away from the front line as they don\u2019t have the armor, weapons that they need to stop the Turkish advance.<\/span><\/p>\n The night before, a Syrian Army commander had said, \u201cWe were told that there was an arrangement. That when we showed up and the Kurds left, there\u2019d be no more fighting. But when we showed up, the Turks killed our men. Captured them, killed them, and wounded many.”<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve evacuated many of the wounded these last four days, including Syrian Army wounded which shows how serious the fighting is. On this mission so far, we\u2019ve evacuated over 30 wounded under fire and, working with the Kurdish Red Crescent, we’ve helped evacuate over 200 wounded. For most of those evacuations, we had to go behind or close to FSA, which means they were shooting at us. Other evacuations that were easier to get out were picked up by other ambulances which allowed us to focus on the places where it was hard to get in and get the wounded out.<\/span><\/p>\n Between Oct. 9 to Oct. 30, there were 1091 people wounded and 206 killed, from the Turkish\/FSA attacks.<\/p>\n Wounded Total:\u00a01091<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Children: 69<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Adult, Female: 149<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Adult, Male: 873<\/p>\n Killed Total: 206 Killed<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Children: 8<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Adult, Female: 20<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Adult, Male: 178<\/p>\n Tel Tamir Hospital Statistics (Oct. 9-30)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Total Patients\u00a0Treated: 609<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Patients transported to Qamishli: 286<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0Dead: 119<\/p>\n![\"Our](\"https:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_0299.jpg\")
![\"Some](\"https:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_2637.jpg\")
<\/a>