The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In conjunction with the escape of ISIS members with civilians towards SDF areas, ISIS executes 3 members on charges of “smuggling civilians to areas of the infidels”

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the “Islamic State” organization executed 3 members in its last enclave in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, on charges of “smuggling civilians” out of ISIS enclave towards areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces at the east bank of Euphrates River, and in the same context, it turned out that among the people who managed to escape the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization towards SDF areas; there were members of the Organization who were identified by civilians, and the Syrian Observatory published during the past hours that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the recent 24 hours witnessed the exit of a new batch of the people fled from the controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; approximately 200 civilian children, women and elderly people who are descended from the areas of Al-Bab and Sfireh in Aleppo countryside, and from the Iraqi province of Al-Qa’im, got out of the controlled areas of the organization in its last enclave on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, to the controlled areas of the Syria Democratic Forces which secured them, and the reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that among those who got out of ISIS-held areas, there are a number of ISIS members of Iraqi nationality, that were figured out by a number of citizens who informed the members of the SDF that they are disguised in civilian dress, and it is not known whether those fighters who fled from ISIS members, have already given up fighting and fled from the organization, or they are trying to reach the controlled areas of the SDF under the umbrella of being displaced people to carry out future operations against these areas, thus, it rose to more than 2400, 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.

The Syrian Observatory published on the 17th of December 2018, that it monitored that tens of civilians were able to get out of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, and in the details that the Syrian Observatory obtained: more than 200 civilians of children, women, and old people were able to leave the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas in it last enclave on the east bank of Euphrates River, and they were secured by the Syria Democratic Forces and transferred to a camp near al-Omar oilfield, and they will be transferred to other camps, and the Syrian Observatory learned that among the fled people there are 6 European families, reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that they are of German nationality, mostly children and women, while the rest of the families are from Aleppo province, and Iraqi province of al-Qaim which is located on the Syrian – Iraqi border, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published days ago that 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, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 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.