ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province is set to receive and provide treatment for a number of people who were injured during the recent clashes in Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods, The New Region's correspondent reported on Monday.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has instructed its health ministry to provide treatment for the wounded, with Duhok's health department providing 12 ambulances to carry the wounded to the destination hospitals in Duhok and the Zakho Independent Administration.

The New Region has learned that the ambulances have already left for the Peshkhabour crossing that connects the Kurdistan Region to northeast Syria (Rojava).

Six days of constant clashes erupted last week between Damascus-affiliated groups and Kurdish-led internal security (Asayish) in Aleppo, in an operation by the former to drive the latter out of the neighborhood.

The KRG's initiative comes as hospitals in Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsoud operate at diminished capacities due to repeated shelling by government forces during the altercations, with the Khalid Fajr hospital bearing the brunt of the conflict.

The hospital has been subjected to repeated attacks using "machine guns and drones," according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which warned of a "potential humanitarian catastrophe" as citizens trapped in the hospital plead for help.

Sheikh Maqsoud's Yassin hospital and surrounding buildings had also suffered extensive damage, an eyewitness at the neighborhood told The New Region on Monday. “I don't know what kind of weapons caused this destruction,” he said, perplexed.

The Kurdish Red Crescent told The New Region that it had recorded at least 118 people who were injured in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, adding that they have affirmed their readiness to provide a number of ambulances to facilitate the transportation of the wounded across to the Kurdistan Region. 

At least 100 were killed, according to rights monitors, with hundreds more injured and over 150,000 who were displaced at the height of the conflict.

The fighting stopped after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced in the early hours of Sunday that they had reached “an understanding that leads to a ceasefire” in Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods. Syrian state media reported that all Kurdish-led forces had evacuated the area.

After taking over a large part of the area, the government-affiliated forces were filmed desecrating corpses, insulting detained residents, and vandalizing Kurdish symbols.

The attacks have sparked several protests across Syria, the Kurdistan Region, and across the world. Kurdish leaders, including President Masoud Barzani and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani have voiced concern over attempts of ethnic cleansing against the Kurds.