YBŞ (Shengal Resistance Units) Command and HPG (People's Defense Forces) Shengal Command have released a joint statement reporting that KDP's peshmerga forces blocked the road between Shengal and Rojava which has been used to meet the needs of the Êzidî people in Mount Shengal and the armed forces in the region.

Remarking that the Shengal-Rojava road blocked by KDP peshmerga has been used to meet the needs of logistic and health units, the statement noted that the local people in the areas of Kersê and Serdeşt have in response protested the hindrance by peshmerga forces.

YBŞ and HPG commands stressed that such policies and practices -which came during a process when the Kurdish people are waging a battle against ISIS- by no means served the benefits of the Kurdish people.

"An immediate end must be brought to such practices which are likely to cause provocations in the region. If the blocking is implemented by the local forces, the central power must immediately ensure an intervention and end to the hindrance. If it is a decision and implementation by the KDP, our forces will take positions and take precautions accordingly. In the event that this hindrance continues, peshmerga forces affiliated to KDP will be denied passage through the asayish (public security) points held by YBŞ forces and HPG guerrillas” the statement underlined.

HPG and YBŞ Shengal commands called upon the people and democratic public opinion of Kurdistan to put pressure on KDP in order for it to give an immediate end to such practices, and to protest the situation.