The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the organization’s promises about a secure corridor…about 600 persons left ISIS last enclave remaining in the east of the Euphrates including 11 members of Turkish, French and Ukrainian nationalities

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a new batch of those who are still present in ISIS last enclave at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, managed to reach the controlled areas of the Syria Democratic Forces, where reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that about 600 persons managed to reach the SDF-held areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that about 20 members of the organization have got out among them, including 6 Turkish members, 2 French women and 3 other Ukrainian members, raising to 37700, the number of persons whose exit has been documented by the Syrian Observatory since the 1st of December 2018 until today, the 10th of February 2019, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and more than 35651 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 3420 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.

And the Syrian Observatory published on the past 48 hours, that it is anticipated for the corridor that the “Islamic State” promised to be opened, the Organization promised the civilians and fighters in its last remaining enclave with that, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Organization promised civilians to open a safe passage for them within the next few hours or days, and the Syrian Observatory published on Thursday, the 7th of February 2019 that the besiege and closing the way out of the “Islamic State” Organization area east of Euphrates not only increased the tragedy of the remaining civilians, but after that the hunger and the rise of prices came to increase this tragedy, where the Syrian Observatory obtained information from local sources within what is left of areas for the Organization (which is about 4 square kilometers), that the area is witnessing a significant rise in the prices of the remaining foodstuffs inside the besieged enclave on the east bank of Euphrates River, where  the prices of sugar reached more than 10000 Syrian pounds per kilogram and the rice 18000 Syrian pounds per kilogram, amid poor purchasing power among those who remained, as they do not have enough money to buy milk or food for them and for their children trapped with them, also the smuggling prices reached large sums of money ranging between 1500$ and 3000$ US dollars per person to get them out of the enclave, and sometimes it reached more than 10000$ USD for foreigners wanting to get out of the enclave, to get them to their destination through smuggling routes into al-Busayrah area through roads from the desert, in which members of the Syria Democratic Forces are not present, while the tragedy increases as the leaders and members of the “Islamic State” Organization take the remaining civilians as human shields, so theta they do not get bombard by the International Coalition, which is preparing with the Syria Democratic Forces to completely end the presence of ISIS in the area in the coming days, and the reliable sources from within the enclave of the Organization confirmed that the smuggling road is long not to mention the bad weather, also the forces deployed in the vicinity of the enclave target any movement from the inside of the enclave to the outside of it, where some families were forced to return to the enclave after being targeted, and these families lost the money they were going to pay to the smugglers when they arrive to their destination, putting them in front of an unknown fate, and through the Syrian Observatory the residents demanded the International Coalition and SDF to open the road in front of the people getting out of the enclave to reach the areas they want to go out to, and then making sure of their identity and affiliations, where they confirmed to the Syrian Observatory how much the situation is tragic, amid fears for their lives from shelling by the coalition or the forces around the area, and reliable sources confirmed again to the Syrian Observatory that tens of children, women, and old people are ill as a result of the poor living, severe shortages of medicines and food, high prices of existing ones, and not to mention the lack of medical care, as the members of the Organization keep the supply to themselves and not giving it for those they take as human shields.