Syria: Displaced Ras al-Ayn residents seek shelter in al-Hasakah school

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Footage filmed on Sunday shows internally displaced people (IDPs) being sheltered in Abd al-Ahad Mousa school in the Syrian city of al-Hasakah.

Hundreds of IDPs, including several families, are seeking refuge in the school after fleeing the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn.

One of the displaced people described their experience, saying: "We ran away from shelling, we ran away from fear. For a whole day we were walking on the streets, our kids were spending night on streets."

On October 9, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the beginning of a military operation in north-eastern Syria dubbed 'Operation Peace Spring’. Ankara says the aim of the Turkish offensive is to create a 'safe zone' cleared of Kurdish groups.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates over 130,000 people have been displaced from the Syrian-Turkish border area since the start of the Turkish offensive.

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