The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More human losses within the ongoing fighting in the suburbs of Hajin east of the Euphrates raise to 110, the number of fighters who were killed in the ranks of the SDF and ISIS

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored rocket and artillery shelling by the Syria Democratic Forces which targeted areas in Hajin town and the enclave that is controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, along with the overflight of the International Coalition warplanes and their targeting from time to time, to positions of the organization which exploited the bad weather in the past 24 hours, and managed to achieve significant advancement at the expense of the SDF and the factions operating under their banner of Jaysh Al-Thowwar, Deir Ezzor Military Council, Manbij Military Council and Jabhat Al-Akrad Brigade, where it managed to recover most of Hajin, while the fighting is still continuing between the both parties, amid attempts by the each party to achieve advancement at the expense of the other, while the landmines prevented the SDF from holding their control over the areas into which they advanced, while the SOHR monitored the fall of more human losses in the ongoing clashes, where it rose to 61, the number of ISIS members who have been killed including at least 6 suicide bombers, also it rose to at least 48, the number of members of the Syria Democratic Forces who were killed in the same clashes, raising to 854 the number of fighters of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in shelling, clashes, bombings, and raids within the enclave of the organization since the 10th  of September 2018, also it rose to about 512, the number members of the Syria Democratic Forces who were killed since the 10th of September 2018, and the SOHR has received details about the attacks that were carried out by the organization in the vicinity of the enclave it controls at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that it monitored the continuation of violent clashes in the last enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for human rights: the “Islamic State” Organization returned to exploit the weather conditions, where the Syrian Observatory monitored a counter attack by the “Islamic State” Organization, which enabled it to advance in Hajin and regain control of most of Hajin town, where ISIS controlled most of the town of which the Syria Democratic Forces in recent days managed to control more than 70%, after a violent attack by the Jaysh al-Thowwar, Jabhat al-Akrad Brigade, al-Sh’aytat forces, Deir Ezzor military Council, and Manbij Military Council, which are under the banner of the Syria Democratic Forces, where the violent clashes are concentrated in al-Hawwamah area located on the outskirts of Hajin town, which ISIS tries to keep SDF away of and control it, to secure Hajin town.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published that it monitored violent bombardment by the warplanes of the Coalition targeted areas in the enclave of the “Islamic State” organization at 10:30 morning intensively, where the warplanes targeted places in Hajin area in the last enclave of the Organization at the east bank of Euphrates, and the Syrian Observatory monitored the Syria Democratic Forces continuing their sweeping operations in the areas that they controlled in Hajin town, which are 70% of the town, where the shelling continued for several minutes violently and intensely, and  the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 11 people, they are: 6 children, 3 citizen women, and 2 members of the “Islamic State” Organization of the displaced people of the eastern countryside of Homs, raising to 317 including 113 children and 72 citizen women (including 180 Syrian citizens including 76 children and 43 women of Syrian nationality), thus, which increased the number of people who were killed according to the 3 stages of the Coalition bombing, which was 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 265 civilians including 99 children and 65 women, including 160 Syrian citizens including 68 children and 40 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.