The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In conjunction with holding about 300 persons of 130 kidnapped families…the “Islamic State” organization executes 5 persons on charge of “dealing with the SDF” in its last enclave east of the river

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the “Islamic State” organization has executed 5 persons in Al-Susah area within the enclave it controls, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, on charge of “espionage and cooperation with the Syria Democratic Forces”, and the sources confirmed that the execution was carried out by the organization after it detained them, and it is not known so far whether those who have been executed are of the 130 families who the organization kidnapped on the 12th of October 2018 from Al-Bahra Camp of displaced people east of the Euphrates, thus, it rose to 15, the number those who were executed by the organization in the past 2 weeks, raising to 781, the number of people who have been killed and executed since the 10th of September 2018, they are: 239 at least, one of them was a field commander of Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces, they were killed in clash against ISIS, and at least 471 fighters and commanders of the “Islamic State” Organization, they were killed in the clashes and the strikes of the International Coalition and SDF since the start of the military operations on the 10th of September 2018, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, as well as 15 persons including 10 members of the SDF were executed by the organization, and 2 girls who were killed in shelling by SDF on the ISIS-enclave, and 5 citizens were killed in bombing by the International Coalition on the same enclave, in addition to 49 civilians including 10 children and 4 citizen women, were killed in airstrikes by the International Coalition on a mosque and Koranic institute in al-Susah town within ISIS-enclave at the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, the majority of whom are Iraqi nationals including families of members of the “Islamic State” organization.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory monitored during the military operations that started on the 10th of October 2018, violent clashes, the most violent of which were what the area witnessed in the last two weeks, as a result of the bad weather conditions and the sandstorm which was exploited by the “Islamic State” organization, where it carried out counter and violent attacks that killed members of both parties, and after which about 300 persons of 130 families were abducted, including at least 90 women of different nationalities, the majority of whom are nationalities of the former Soviet Union whose fate is still unknown, where the organization separated the women from the rest of the abductees, amid fears for their lives of executions that may be carried out individually or collectively by ISIS, and the abduction took place from al-Bahra camp, where the Syrian Observatory previously monitored the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition moving tens of people and families to al-Bahra camp, which consists of tens of tents in the countryside of Hajin town, where it was established by SDF and the Coalition with the purpose of sheltering displaced families in addition to families of members of the “Islamic State” organization.