More citizens get out the organization’s controlled areas east of the Euphrates raising to more than 2000, the number of those managed to flee from them in 15 days

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that more citizens managed to flee from the controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization in the last enclave left for it in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the details obtained by the SOHR; about 300 citizens managed to get out from the controlled areas of the organization towards the SDF-held areas in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, raising to more than 2000, the number of civilians of women, children, and elderly who have gotten out of the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas and its last enclave; towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas since the 30th of November 2018, and it is not known yet the number of remaining civilians in the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, where the local sources that managed to escape the enclave confirmed that the Organization is executing anyone tries to escape on charge of “getting to the lands of infidels,” where those who came out have risked their lives in exchange for reaching the area.

And the Syrian Observatory published 2 days ago, that it monitored successive operations by the Syria Democratic Forces, in securing hundreds of civilians fleeing the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: the Syria Democratic Forces were able since, Wednesday morning, the 13th of December 2018, to secure about 600 civilians of the residents of ISIS enclave of elderly, children, and women mostly Aleppo, Iraq, al-Bokmal and its countryside, where they were transferred to safe areas within camps under the protection and guard of the Syria Democratic Forces in Deir Ezzor Al-Hasakah countryside.

Local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory days ago that food, clothes and covers were distributed on the displaced people, after they were collected by the residents of Al-Busayrah town, for the displaced people located in 2 schools within the town which is located to the east of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, amid a continued state of tension prevailing among the residents and the SDF against the backdrop of transporting them by the locals to Al-Sadd Camp in the countryside of Al-Hasakah province, while the Syrian Observatory published on the 30th of November 2018, that tens of citizens managed to escape from the controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where they reached the positions of the Syria Democratic Forces in the area, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; tens of civilian women and children managed to get out of ISIS-held areas on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, through waterways that were formed along the past days due to the heavy rains that the area was previously subjected to, where the escapees walked for long distances within these waterways until they have reached one of the SDF posts in the vicinity of the enclave that is under the control of the organization east of Deir Ezzor, while this exit is coincided with ISIS prevention to the citizens from leaving the enclave it controls, where it (the organization) considers everyone who tries to leave as an infidel under the pretext of “going to the lands of infidels”, where the organization previously carried out executions against several persons on charge of “being smugglers” who help citizens escape out of the controlled areas of the organization in the east of Deir Ezzor.