Coalition massacres kill 139 civilians including 89 children and women since they and SDF lost their total progress east of Euphrates River
Between gain and loss, triumph and defeat, progress and retreat, civilians have had the greatest share of killing, through shells and missiles killed civilians each time within areas of control of the “Islamic State” organization in its last enclave in the area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been able to monitor the casualties as a result of strikes of the International Coalition, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 191 citizens civilians, the majority of them are of Iraqi nationality and families of members of the “Islamic State” organization, including 65 children and 45 women including 77 Syria citizens among them there are 33 children and 19 citizen women, divided by the Syrian Observatory to 3 phases, the first of which is the first month of the military operation in which the Syria Democratic Forces and the Coalition advanced in the last enclave of the organization and controlled al-Baghuz, al-Susah, al-Shajla and parts of Hajin and the advanced in other outskirts and areas of the enclave, where Coalition airstrikes killed at least 5 Syrian civilians, and this first phase was from the 10th of September to the 10th of October 2018, while the second phase was from the 10th of October to the 28th of the same month, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of 47 civilians including 14 children and 7 women, including 15 Syrians including 8 children and 3 women, they were killed in airstrikes by the International Coalition warplanes which targeted at least 4 mosques, a Koranic school, and civilian homes, while the third stage represented by shelling by the International Coalition and killed 139 civilians including 51 children and 38 women, including 57 Syrian citizens including 25 children and 16 women, in several areas under the control of the “Islamic State” organization at the eastern bank of Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
The death toll escalated as the organization began its counterattacks with the first monthly anniversary of the military operation launched by the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, and escalated more after both last mentioned lost all that they were able to control in their operation, while the Syrian Observatory for the Rights of Human military monitored movements by the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition forces; on the contact areas with the enclave of the “Islamic State” on the east banks of Euphrates River, in preparation by the first mentioned to end what remained for the organization in the eastern Euphrates, as they brought more large military reinforcements to the vicinity of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: the SDF brought about 1700 fighters in the last 24 hours from the areas of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), Manbij, and other areas under the control of SDF, where fighters of several factions of SDF were brought such as Jaysh al-Thowwar, the Kurdish Front brigade, and others, in addition to bringing members of the Internal security forces “Asayish”, as part of the continuous preparations by the Syria Democratic Forces to begin the grand ground military operation, which aims to end the presence of the Organization east of Euphrates.
The Syrian Observatory published 7 days ago that the military operations within the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, against the last enclave remaining under the control of the “Islamic State” organization on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, completed their second consecutive month on the 10th of November 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that with the end of the second moth, the situations returned to point zero, as they were before launching the military operation on the 10th of September 2018, the date when it was launched under the command of the Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces, where the organization has depended since the operation completed its first month and to the end of the second moth, on counter attacks that were carried out by it, through which the organization targeted the advancements which were achieved by the Coalition and the SDF in the first month of heavy aerial and ground shelling by the both parties and by the International Coalitions’ warplanes, and the operations led to the recovery of all the areas that the organization lost during the military operation, thus, its controlled areas expanded again from Hajin town to the Syrian – Iraqi border, including the towns and villages of Hajin, Al-Sha’afah, al-Marashdah, Al-Bokhater, Al-Bobadran, Al-Susah, Al-Shajlah, Al-Baghuz Foqani and Al-Baghuz Tahtani, and the organization depended during the operations of recovering these areas, on blowing fighters themselves up using bobby trapped vehicles and explosive belts, as well as depending on the members of the “Caliphate Cubs” of children who have joined the organization, in addition to women recruited within the ranks of the organization, it also depended greatly on the tunnels which enabled it to move its vehicles without being targeted by the International Coalition, which confused the SDF and the Coalition.
military operations within the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, against the last enclave remaining under the control of the “Islamic State” organization on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, completed their second consecutive month on the 10th of November 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that with the end of the second moth, the situations returned to point zero, as they were before launching the military operation on the 10th of September 2018, the date when it was launched under the command of the Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces, where the organization has depended since the operation completed its first month and to the end of the second moth, on counter attacks that were carried out by it, through which the organization targeted the advancements which were achieved by the Coalition and the SDF in the first month of heavy aerial and ground shelling by the both parties and by the International Coalitions’ warplanes, and the operations led to the recovery of all the areas that the organization lost during the military operation, thus, its controlled areas expanded again from Hajin town to the Syrian – Iraqi border, including the towns and villages of Hajin, Al-Sha’afah, al-Marashdah, Al-Bokhater, Al-Bobadran, Al-Susah, Al-Shajlah, Al-Baghuz Foqani and Al-Baghuz Tahtani, and the organization depended during the operations of recovering these areas, on blowing fighters themselves up using bobby trapped vehicles and explosive belts, as well as depending on the members of the “Caliphate Cubs” of children who have joined the organization, in addition to women recruited within the ranks of the organization, it also depended greatly on the tunnels which enabled it to move its vehicles without being targeted by the International Coalition, which confused the SDF and the Coalition.
The military operation which the SDF and the International Coalition announced about on the 10th of September 2018, came after weeks of preparations represented by bringing thousands of fighters by the Syria Democratic Forces and the Coalition to the vicinity of the enclave which is controlled by the organization, in addition to bringing massive military reinforcements of armored vehicles, tanks, heavy gears, bulldozers, machineguns, missiles, ammunition and logistic equipment, which entered the Syrian territory on trucks and were transported to the vicinity of this enclave, and the recent 2 weeks witnessed the sending of hundreds of trucks loaded with logistic equipment, weapons and ammunition, to the bases of the International Coalition and the battle fronts, while the military operation has been concentrated since it was launched in 2 main fronts the first of which is Hajin town where the organization defended desperately against the SDF’s advancement, and Al-Baghuz area where the SDF managed to achieve further advancement, where the SOHR monitored that the SDF managed during the military operation to take the control of large spaces of Al-Baghuz Foqani, and to impose their control over Al-Shajlah village and Muzan area, they also advanced and took the control of most of Al-Susah town, and into the outskirts of al-Marashdah village, and they advanced into parts of Hajin town, clamping down on the “Islamic State” organization which was seeking to prevent the SDF from confining it in narrower area, but the heavy firepower used by the SDF and the Coalition in the artillery and rocket shelling as well as the airstrikes carried out by the International Coalition’s warplanes on the area, prevented the organization from achieving its goal, until it started on the 10th of October to carry out counterattacks led to recovering the areas it lost during the advancement of the SDF and the Coalition, where the organization focused greatly on the counterattacks and blowing the fighters themselves up using bobby trapped vehicles and explosive belts, and depended on the heavy-planted mines in its last enclave in the east of the Euphrates, in addition to using the tunnels that secure easy movement for it in its controlled areas, and the tunnels sometimes secure its counterattacks against the advancements of the SDF, where they were highly alerted during their latest control over the area, when they advance as a result of all of these details that obstructed their planned advancement.