The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Fears escalate over the lives of 130 families including 90 female abductees of different nationalities along with completing the first week of their abduction by the organization

The abduction of tens of families in the east of the Euphrates River, has completed today, Thursday the 18th of October 2018, its first week since the operation was carried out on the 12th of October 2018, where the “Islamic State” organization is still holding 130 families including 90 women at least, in ISIS last enclave at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, after they kidnapped them from Al-Bahra Camp, and took them to the enclave it controls which is the last area left under its control in the east of the Euphrates River, whose eastern banks have been witnessing ongoing clashes since the 10th of October 2018, while reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the organization has classified the abductees of the 130 families where it separated the women away from the children and men, along with subjecting all of them to questioning and investigation, amid fears over their lives of carrying out mass or individual executions against them by the organization after it executed thousands of people in the past years.

The sources confirmed to the Syrian observatory that the 90 female abductees in the east of the Euphrates, include a number of women of different non-Syrian nationalities, who were kidnapped while they were in Al-Bahra Camp which was established by the International Coalition, in the vicinity of ISIS last enclave, in Al-Bahra area near Hajin town, while fears prevailing over the lives of the 90 female abductees of carrying out mass or individual executions against them by the organization, also the Syrian Observatory obtained information reporting that the organization has presented 2 proposals via clannish mediators, to release a group of the 90 female abductees, who are the wives of former members of the organization or widows of killed members, and a group of their families who are held hostages by the organization, in return for entering alimentary and medical aid to ISIS last enclave, but the both proposals have been refused by the International Coalition so far.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory monitored previously that the SDF and the International Coalition transporting tens of people and families to Al-Bahra Camp which contains more than 100 tents, in the countryside of Hajin town, and which was set up by the SDF and Coalition, in order to provide shelters for the displaced families and the families of the members of the “Islamic State” organizations, where it is expected that the displaced people will be hosted in this camp in the incoming few days, the SOHR also obtained information from reliable sources, which confirmed that more than 100 members of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces (Asayish), headed to Hajin and its vicinity in order to hold points of control after the SDF advanced in the area .