Amid recent clashes to end its presence east of Euphrates, the ISIS enclave witnesses a mass flee raised to 16700, the number of people fled since the beginning of December 2018 including about 900 members

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored during the last hours of the night, the continuation of clashes at a varying degree of violence, between the remaining members of the “Islamic State” Organization against the Syria Democratic Forces supported by ground forces and a firearm from the International Coalition, in areas in the vicinity of what remains of the Organization on the east bank of Euphrates River, within the recent operations to end the presence of the Organization in the entire east of Euphrates, and the clashes which are taking place on the outskirts of al-al-Susah town and its vicinity, were accompanied by exchange of targeting between both parties, coincided with process of evacuating the people who are fleeing from what remained of the “Islamic State” Organization; towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, where the second batch exit on board of several trucks of which more than 25 trucks had entered at 8:00 am on yesterday morning, Saturday, where more than 700 persons mostly children and women -including men- have gotten out in the second batch in the last 24 hours, while other batches of fled people are still waiting to be transferred, raising to 16700 the number of people who have gotten out of the organization’s enclave since early December 2018, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and about 14650 of them have gotten out after the decision of the American president Trump to withdraw from Syria on the 19th of December 2018, including about 900 members of the organization of those who infiltrated within the displaced people, and they were arrested after the residents recognized them and reported the security services about their infiltration, and the other group surrendered themselves after they managed to get out of ISIS last enclave, also people of those who fled confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the organization is greatly collapsed, and it cannot resist no more, where the organization depends in repelling the attacks, on the heavily-planted landmines, the booby trapped vehicles and the “suicide bombers”.

And the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory, that the number of those who fled is suggested to be the largest one ever, because of the entry of such large batch of trucks for the first time, to this enclave, where the number of the vehicles which entered previously to this area did not exceed 15 trucks, and the reliable sources suggested to the SOHR that with the exit of this batch, there will not be large numbers of citizens in ISIS enclave, while the Syrian Observatory learned that some of those who fled the enclave of the organization, and while being transported to Al-Omar Oilfield and before being sorted out into camps, pay large sums of money in order to get out to areas such as Al-Busayrah, Theban and Gharanij, where sums of money exceed $ 10,000 are paid for fear of being arrested when they reach the camps into which they are sorted out, and the sources suggested that in most cases, ISIS members and families of ISIS members are the ones who pay such sums of money, where they pay them to the parties that are responsible for the transport to the camps from Al-Omar Oilfield, the reliable sources also confirmed that a batch of those who were in the enclave of the organization at the eastern banks of the river, have fled towards the west of the Euphrates River.