The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the execution of an ISIS member after being captured alive…fear increases over the lives of the abductees of Al-Suwaidaa who were kidnapped 2 weeks ago

Al-Suwaidaa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the fears of the families of the Al-Suwaidaa abductees is increasing, of a new reaction by the “Islamic State” organization, in regard with what happened today morning, Tuesday the 7th of August 2018, where gunmen loyal to the regime forces has executed a member of the organization after capturing him alive then they hung him in a square in Al-Suwaidaa city, hanged him and put the banner of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and these fears for the lives of the abductees, came days after the organization had executed the first citizen within the 30 women, children, and boys who were kidnapped by the organization on the 25th of July 2018, then they were transported to al-Suwaidaa desert.

The fears were accompanied by the citizens’ resentment, against this execution which was carried out by gunmen loyal to the regime and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, where the latter denied that it participated in carrying out this execution, and considered this action that it is not of the morals of the party’s forces”, and the Syrian Observatory monitored hours ago, that the loyalists and gunmen villagers of al-Suwaidaa executing a prisoner of the “Islamic State” organization, hours after capturing him during the clashes in the al-Suwaidaa Desert, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring hundreds of the citizens and members of the gunmen loyal to the regime hanging one of the prisoner over the one of the arches in al-Suwaidaa, and it is not known whether the captive was hanged when he was hung, or if he was executed by gunfire after capturing him alive and after that his body was hung, amid fears for the lives of abductees of the countryside of al-Suwaidaa who are detained by ISIS.

This is the second incident of its kind in al-Suwaidaa, after the execution that took place on the 25th of July 2018, against ISIS member who was captured during the deadliest and most violent attack on al-Suwaidaa Province, where his body was also hung in a similar position along with gathering of hundreds of citizens, and the second execution, today, comes while the violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas east and northeast of al-Suwaidaa desert, in a continuous attempt to control more areas as part of the military operation announced by the regime forces, which began on the evening of the 5th of August, and the clashes are accompanied by continued air and missile strikes, while the Syrian Observatory published this morning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more casualties against the backdrop of the suicide attack and the continuous military operations in al-Suwaidaa Desert, where it rose to 4, the number of members of the Syrian Nationalist Party loyal to the regime forces who were killed in the suicide attack that was carried out by members of the “Islamic State” organization in a point of them in the eastern desert of al-Suwaidaa to the east of Douma village, and in the same context, it rose to more than 16, the number of killed ISIS members -including a suicide bomber- since the beginning the military operations of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and the gunmen villagers in the eastern and northeastern desert of al-Suwaidaa, which began on Sunday night the 5th of August 2018, and since the launch of the operations more than 6 vehicles of  the “Islamic State” organization have been destroyed.