After focusing on the security aspect and the cancellation of “al-Hisba”…ISIS carries out executions against people who are accused of “smuggling and espionage” in its last enclave in the east of the Euphrates

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from a number of reliable sources, which confirmed to the SOHR that the “Islamic State” organization carried out executions against a number of persons in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, where the executions were carried out in the recent two weeks, against persons who were arrested by the organization in its controlled areas in Deir Ezzor countryside, where some of them have been slaughtered and others have been shot, on various charges the most prominent of which were smuggling people out of the organization’s controlled areas, which are located in ISIS last enclave at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, or dealing and cooperating with the regime forces and the Syria Democratic Forces, while these executions were coincided with the entry of humanitarian and alimentary aid to the abovementioned enclave, through a crossing that was opened between this enclave and SDF-held areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which witnessed displacement of families of ISIS members of Syrian, Iraqi and other nationalities.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the past days, the displacement of tens of Syrian and non-Syrian families, including a Yazidi family through al-Sha’fa crossing who was within the enclave which is controlled by the organization, and the family managed to reached the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, and in the past few days tens of Syrians and non-Syrian families have gotten out towards areas controlled by Syria Democratic Forces, where the non-Syrian families are being transferred to camps of the Syria Democratic Forces and under their control, while the Syrian families are allowed to leave to the villages of the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, while the International Coalition repeatedly dropped leaflets in the past days, on the controlled areas of the organization calling on the citizens to displace and on the members of the organization to surrender, after opening al-Shafa crossing and entering aid and foodstuffs to the enclave which is controlled by the organization.

The Syrian Observatory also monitored previously that the Organization definitively canceling the “al-Hisba” security branch, and focusing on the security aspect to protect this enclave, which is witnessing mobilization by the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces with huge amounts of weapons, vehicles, ammunition, equipment, and fighters, and local sources confirmed that the role “of al-Hisba” no longer exists after it was canceled by the organization, and also the organization itself is now only focusing on the security and military aspects, after the punishment and accounting used to be carried out against all people because of “shaving the chin, wearing clothes do not go with Sharia law, and not being committed to praying and closing shops at the time of praying”, and other punishments, also that coincided with the decrease in the frequency of executions to the extent of absence since several weeks, also the security tightening and caring for the military aspect by the “Islamic State” Organization, came in conjunction with bringing more military reinforcement by the International Coalition Forces and the forces of the Syria Democratic Forces, through which the Syria Democratic Forces aim to end the presence of the Organization in the entire east of Euphrates.