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• Autonomous Administration provides aid packages for 500,000 families in the Jazira region 

  The economic crisis is deepening in Northern and Eastern Syria and the Autonomous Administration distributes 500,000 aid packages to families in the Jazira region.
• Turkey must stop using water as a weapon, says Sozdar Ehmed 

  Hesekê Canton Water Directorate co-chair, Sozdar Ehmed, said that the occupying Turkish state's interrupting the water flow at Alouk Water Station negatively affected the people, especially farmers.
• Call for establishment of an international court to prosecute ISIS members in Rojava 

  An opinion Leader from al-Fadil Tribe stated that international community avoids the responsibilities about arrested ISIS gangs and called for establishment of an international court.
• 73 more coronavirus cases registered in North and East Syria 

  Health Committee in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria announced that 73 people tested Covid-19 positive, 10 people lost their lives and 14 people recovered.
• PYNK: Turkish state avenges ISIS with the “Kobane trial” 

  Speaking out against the "Kobane trial" in which over a hundred Kurdish politicians stand trial in Turkey, PYNK in North-East Syria expressed that the Turkish state seeks to avenge ISIS that was defeated in Kobane.
• Leading member of ISIS arrested in Deir ez-Zor countryside 

  In a joint operation by Anti-Terror Units and the international coalition against ISIS, a leading member of the ISIS was arrested near Deir ez-Zor.
• “Autonomous Administration is the only project to resolve the Syrian crisis” 

  Manbij Intellectuals Union co-chair said that the regions in the Autonomous Administration are the safest regions of the Syrian territory despite all the attacks and that the Autonomous Administration is the only project that will resolve Syrian crisis.
• Afrin refugees in Shehba salute the guerrilla resistance 

  Afrin residents staying in Serdem Camp saluted the guerrilla resistance against the invasion attacks of the invading Turkish state against the Medya Defense Areas.
• Autonomous Administration: Turkish state should be tried instead of HDP 

  Officials from the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria denounced Turkey’s violations of human rights and called for legal action to bring it to account.
• People in Aleppo condemn Turkey for using water as a weapon against people 

  People in Aleppo said that "no one in the world has waged a water war against the peoples except Erdogan."
• Turkish state bombs villages in Sherawa and Shehba 

  The invading Turkish state bombed three villages in the Sherawa district of Afrin and a village in Shehba.
• Wise men in Qamishlo and Hesekê condemn silence of international community about Turkish attacks 

  Wise community leaders from Qamishlo and Hesekê condemned the silence of the international community about the Turkish attacks.
• “No solution possible in Syria without the Autonomous Administration” 

  Syrian politician Firas Qesas remarked that no solution is possible in Syria without the Autonomous Administration that offers the rightest solution ways to the crisis in the country.
• Lawyer Elî: Turkey is guilty of war crimes as it denies people access to drinking water 

  Lawyer Mesud Elî said that the occupying Turkish state cutting the water of the Euphrates River is a war crime and genocide and called on the international community to stop this crime against the people of the region.
• Syrian Democratic Council salutes peoples of Syria fighting for a new free life on Workers' Day 

  The MSD issued a statement to celebrate International Workers’ Day.
• Shaddadi Educational Committee repairing schools devastated by ISIS 

  There are 124 schools in Shaddadi where 21 thousand students receive education in primary schools and 1,500 in secondary and high schools. Two schools devastated by ISIS are being repaired now.
• Rojava Administration hands over 92 ISIS women and children to Uzbekistan 

  92 women and children who are relatives of ISIS members have been handed over to Uzbekistan, their country of origin after a high-level delegation from Uzbekistan visited the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
• Resistance Diaries from Rojava 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava and Ocaxa Ciwanên Rojnameger resumed publication of the "Resistance Diaries". The various attacks and resistance to the revolution in Rojava are reported in video diaries.
• TEV-DEM: We stand by workers on 1 May 

  TEV-DEM celebrated Workers' and Labor Day with a written statement.
• Turkey puts the life and health of millions at risk by cutting water supplies to North East Syria 

  The occupying Turkish state reduces the amount of water flowing into Northern and Eastern Syria through the Euphrates River every day. The extent of the danger is revealed once again in a new image taken from the air.
• Unidentified war planes target a Turkish military base near Ain Issa 

  Unidentified war planes targeted a Turkish military base near the northern Syrian city of Ain Issa and other targets in Turkish-occupied Azaz.
• Autonomous Administration implements new partial lockdown 

  The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria is increasing measures in its attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
• Shepherd aged 70 wounded by Turkish soldiers in a village of Afrin 

  Soldiers of occupant Turkish state continue targeting civilians in the occupied Afrin city in northern Syria.
• Residents of Tai neighborhood: We feel safe after removal of NDF militia 

  The Syrian regime militia NDF has been driven out of the Tai neighborhood in Qamishlo and most of the population that was previously evacuated has returned. The residents said they felt safe to have the Internal Security Forces in their neighborhood.
• Hesekê Canton Water Directorate: Turkey should be exposed to the UN for closing Alouk Station 

  Hesekê Canton Water Directorate co-chair Nidal Mehmud said that the Alouk Station should be taken back from the Turkish state.