Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham attacks ISIS in the north-east of Hama and manages to achieve advancement at the expense of it

Hama Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the violent fighting renewed in the north-eastern countryside of Hama between the members of the “Islamic State” organization against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the clashes between the both parties concentrated in the areas of Aniq Bajra, Tawtah and Jib Azraq “Al-Zirayqi”, amid violent attack by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on the area, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the later managed to achieve an advancement in the area, and it took the control of Jib Azraq village, few days after the organization took the control of it, while the clashes are accompanied by exchange of targeting between the both parties, which caused human losses in the ranks of the both parties.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that more than 35 thousand citizens displaced from the villages of the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and headed to areas far from the clashes and to areas in the countryside of Idlib province, where some of the citizens left with all of their properties, while others escaped to survive without taking their properties, and these areas became almost free of their inhabitants, while reliable sources confirmed that some villages that are still controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, contain large numbers of citizens of their inhabitants, who were prevented to leave by the organization.

while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published at the end of October, that it has documented during the period from the 9th of October 2017, the date of the entry of ISIS the controlled areas of Tahrir Al-Sham, until today the 29th of October 2017, the death of 300 members of the ranks of the both parties of who were killed in the military operations between the both parties in the north-eastern countryside, in which 214 members at least of ISIS including several commanders were killed, while more than 89 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham including commanders were killed, and all of them were killed during the period mentioned above, in the clashes and exchange of selling and the explosions.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 9th of October 2017, that the “Islamic State” organization crossed by vehicles with medium and heavy weapons and reached areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, where the organization started attacking areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and managed to advance quickly and abruptly, and took control of about 15 villages, followed by a violent counterattack by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in which it regained to re-control about 5 villages, while Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham brought military reinforcements of members and vehicles, in order to continue the attack and recover the entire lost areas as well as arresting the organization’s members who carried out the attack, and information about casualties in the ranks of both parties as a result of these clashes, which were accompanied by exchange of shelling, also SOHR received information about capturing members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham by the organized during its control of a village, and information about carrying out executions by the organization against prisoners of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where the sources confirmed that the “Islamic State” Organization has reneged the agreement between it and between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham earlier, and that their families of children, women, young men and non-fighter men will be entered to the areas controlled by the factions, and that members of organization are prevented from entering, and any member or fighter of the organization who may enter will be either captured or killed.