The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The SDF advance in the eastern bank of the Euphrates River and work with the support of aerial and ground shelling on besieging the organization in Hajin town

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued military operations in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, at the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, where violent clashes are taking place between the Syria Democratic Forces against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in the vicinity of Hajin town and the vicinity of Abu al-Hassan village, where the SOHR learned that the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition managed to advance in points and positions in the east of the Euphrates, within their military operation to besiege Hajin town through attacking Abu al-Hassan village in its east, within their attempts to force the organization to withdraw from Hajin.

The violent clashes between the both parties which have been continuing for days, are coincided with the overflight of the International Coalition’s warplanes over the area amid their targeting every once and while to the clash areas and positions of the organization and its controlled areas, while the aerial targeting is coincided with shelling by the SDF and the International Coalition’s forces on the same areas, amid targeting witnessed on the contact lines and clash areas between the both parties, and confirmed information about human losses in the ranks of the both parties.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past few days, that it monitored the outbreak of violent clashes in an attempt by the Syria Democratic Forces to control the entire remaining enclave of the organization in this area, and if Syria Democratic Forces were able to advance, they will end the presence of the organization completely east of Euphrates River, and then the organization will have only 2 enclaves in the far south of al-Hasakah and the far northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which are adjacent to each other, and these violent clashes which are accompanied by intense missile and artillery shelling by SDF on the fight locations and with exchange of shelling on the clash areas and the contact lines; come after the continuous artillery shelling by the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the escalation of the missile and artillery shelling targeting Hajin town, and the enclave under the control of the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern banks of Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in a prelude for a military operation through which the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition aim to end the existence of the “Islamic State” organization east of the Euphrates River, also preparations are underway for another operation against the organization in enclave of the “Islamic State” organization in the southern countryside of Hasakah and the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the past few days that the heavy shelling comes with the preparations being carried out by the SDF and the international coalition forces to begin military operation against the regime, where the SOHR published that the eastern and northern countryside of Deir Ezzor and the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, are witnessing alertness by the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, in conjunction with air alertness witnessed in the area east of the Euphrates River, as a part of preparations by them for starting a massive military operation aims to end the presence of the “Islamic State” organization in the entire east of the Euphrates River, where the presence of the organization is concentrated in an enclave that includes 4 villages and towns on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River which are Al-Bahra, Hajin, Abu al-Hassan, Sha’afah, Al-Baghuz, and the organization is also presented in the part in the north-eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which is connected with the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah which still include 22 villages and areas including Tal Al-Jaber, Tal al-Mnakh, Om Haffur, al-Rimat, Fakkah al-Tarraf, Fakkah al-Shwaykh, al-Hessu, al-Bawardi, al-Dshishiyah, Bajari Desert adjacent al-Suwar Desert which includes the administrative borders between Deir Ezzor and Al-Hasakah.