On February 7, 2024, the body of a man bearing gunshot wounds, who was identified as 25-year-old
Hajji Shehada al-Barhou, a taxi driver from Kharija village in northwestern Manbij city in northeastern rural Aleppo governorate, was found by local residents near the transmission tower in al-Mazerl
neighborhood in the north of Manbij city. The area is under the control of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has not yet been able to identify Hajji’s killers, with the controlling forces bearing responsibility for identifying his killers.