More than 2700 fighters of Jaysh al-Thowwar and SDF gather in al-Tank Oilfield and around ISIS enclave, and cars carry the Syrian revolution’s flags enter the area

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the perimeter of the “Islamic State” organization enclave and al-Tank Oilfield, have witnessed the arrival of more military reinforcements, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: more than 1000 fighters have arriving in the vicinity of ISIS enclave at the east bank of Euphrates River, and the Syrian Observatory monitored the arrival of four-wheel-drive vehicles carrying the flags of the Syrian revolution and Jaysh al-Thowwar, and equipped with heavy machine guns, where they entered to the contact lines with the Organization, and now, the number of fighters who arrived in in al-Tank oilfield in which a base of the Syria Democratic Forces is located has reached more than 1700 fighters of the Syria Democratic and the self-defense forces, in preparations for a military operation of which the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition intend to launched in order to eliminate the last enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates River.

In the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that groups of Syria Democratic Forces, have roamed the desert in search of bodies of their fighters who were not withdrawn during the last clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces against members of the “Islamic State” organization, the sources confirmed that 7 fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed as a result of the explosion of bodies that were booby-trapped by the “Islamic State” Organization after leaving them in the desert, raising to 459, the number of SDF members who were killed since the 10th of September 2018, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 739 members of the “Islamic State” organization in the bombings, targeting, clashes, and shelling by the international coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces since the 10th of September 2018.

Also, the Syrian Observatory documented that it rose to 284 including 101 children and 69 citizen women (including 153 Syrian citizens including 64 children and 40 women of Syrian nationality), thus, which increased the number of people who were killed according to the 3 stages of the Coalition bombing, which was divided by the Syrian Observatory to 3 phases, the first of which is the first month of the military operation in which the Syria Democratic Forces and the Coalition advanced in the last enclave of the organization and controlled al-Baghuz, al-Susah, al-Shajla and parts of Hajin and the advanced in other outskirts and areas of the enclave, where Coalition airstrikes killed at least 5 Syrian civilians, and this first phase was from the 10th of September to the 10th of October 2018, while the second phase was from the 10th of October to the 28th of the same month, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of 47 civilians including 14 children and 7 women, including 15 Syrians including 8 children and 3 women, they were killed in airstrikes by the International Coalition warplanes which targeted at least 4 mosques, a Koranic school, and civilian homes, while the third stage represented by shelling by the International Coalition and killed 232 civilians including 87 children and 62 women, including 133 Syrian citizens including 56 children and 37 women, in several areas under the control of the “Islamic State” organization at the eastern bank of Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.