Testimony from Kabul: "Refugees sleeping in the streets, we fear Taliban cuisine" | Israel today

"We are all very scared here. The city is surrounded from every direction. There are masses of refugees sleeping in the streets, in the woods, on the floor, without equipment and without food. The Taliban are committing war crimes, killing innocent people," an aid worker in Kabul said today (Sunday). With "Israel Today".

This is against the background of the siege of the capital of Afghanistan and the occupation of most of the country by the Islamist terrorist organization. 

"Acquaintances in Kandahar said the Taliban carried out a horrific massacre in the city after it fell into their hands. We here fear a similar fate. There is fear and despair here. I came here with my brother, and we try to distribute aid, which is dwindling, to refugees on the streets. "Out to sea, our only active border until recently was with Iran, now it is also cut off. We do not know where we can get help from," says B. in a fragmented telephone conversation.

"These are the same Taliban of the 1990s. They have not changed in terms of cruelty and rigidity. Those who will pay the heavy price for their rule in the country are the women and young people, this is a very sad day for Afghanistan," he said.

"Our message to the world is do not forget Afghanistan, we do not want to go back to the Middle Ages, to the Stone Age, that is not what the Afghan people want. We need help," the aid worker from Kabul called.

Meanwhile, regional media reported that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled to Tajikistan.

According to one report, with the president left were National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib and his bureau chief, Jigsaw Mahmoud Fazli.

The Taliban terrorist organization launched an attack on Kabul this morning and entered the city, with the aim of capturing it from the local government.

According to an American source who spoke to Reuters, less than 50 embassy staff are expected to remain in Kabul now, and these too will be just necessary workers, including Afghan Ambassador Ross Wilson, who will work from the city's airport.

Meanwhile, the U.S. evacuated many workers from the embassy by helicopter. The source also said the U.S. had instructed other embassies operating in the city to "operate there only with limited staff and a protected place."