The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After killing more than 82 persons including 54 children and citizen women in the east of the Euphrates River… strikes by the International Coalition kill an Arab commander in the first rank of the organization

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable sources asserted to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that an Arab commander in the first rank of the “Islamic State” organization, died after he had been injured in bombardment by warplanes belong to the International Coalition which targeted Hajin town controlled by the organization, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River during the past 24 hours, in which its vicinity is witnessing violent clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in an attempt by the forces of “Al-Jazeera Storm” Operation to impose their control over the enter pocket remained for the organization, represented by Hajin, Abu al-Hassan, Sha’afah, and Al-Baghuz, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented since the 1st of February 2018, and until today the 22nd of February 2018, that the International Coalition’s warplanes killed more than 82 persons including 54 children and citizen women, most of whom are families, members and commanders of the organization in Al-Bahra village and Hajin town, including 16 Syrian persons, and these airstrikes also resulted in the injury of tens of persons with varying severity since early February, as well as causing material damage in the places which were bombed.