A rocket fired by PKK-affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists from Syria's Afrin hits a restaurant in Turkey's southern Kilis, injuries are reported.

Axar.az reports citing DS.

Since the beginning of Turkey's Operation Olive Branch to clear PKK/KCK/PYD/YPG and Daesh terrorists from northwestern Syria's Afrin, terrorists have indiscriminately targeted the border province of Kilis and Reyhanlı district with rockets, killing five civilians and injuring some 65 others.

On Jan. 21, two rockets fired by YPG terrorists killed one Syrian national and injured 46 civilians, including 16 Syrians in Reyhanlı. On Wednesday, five rockets landed in the district, killing 17-year-old high school students and injured two others.

Whereas in Kilis, two people were killed and 11 others were injured when a rocket fired from YPG-held areas in Afrin hit a 17th-century mosque in the city center on Jan. 24 while prayers were ongoing.

Both Kilis, a city of 150,000 with Syrian migrants constituting more than the local population, and Reyhanlı, a town of 100,000 people with one-third made up by Syrians, have been targeted by various factions of the Syrian Civil War since 2011.

According to the Turkish General Staff, Operation Olive Branch aims to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to protect Syrians from terrorist oppression and cruelty.

The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey's rights based on international law, U.N. Security Council resolutions, its self-defense rights under the U.N Charter, and respect for Syria's territorial integrity.