The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

the International Coalition continues its movements towards the contact lines with ISIS and 17 trucks enter the front area to transport hundreds of people who fled towards SDF areas

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued movement of the International Coalition to and from the front lines of the fight, on the outskirts and vicinity of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, where the Syrian Observatory monitored during the hours of last night violent bombardment by warplanes of the International Coalition, targeted the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, where last night witnessed 2 rounds of bombardment; one of which began before midnight and continued until 2:00 pm, while the second round began at 5 am and continued until at 8:00 am on Tuesday, the 15th of January 2018, and the Syrian Observatory monitored the entry of two column of the International Coalition consist of 15 Hummer vehicles, 3 military trucks, and two military cars to the front lines with the Organization, accompanied by the continuation of clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces against members of the “Islamic State” Organization, in areas in the vicinity and outskirts of the al-Susah area , amid of exchange of targeting at the clash areas between both parties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the entry of more trucks on Tuesday, the 15th of January, to the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the entry of 17 military trucks to transport the people who fled from the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, who are estimated to be hundreds of children and women of different nationalities, including members of the “Islamic State” Organization, who will be transferred to the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, where the Syrian Observatory had monitored the exit of more 18600 people out of the organization’s enclave since early December 2018, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and about 16550 of them have gotten out after the decision of the American president Trump to withdraw from Syria on the 19th of December 2018, including about 1000 members of the organization of those who infiltrated within the displaced people, and they were arrested after the residents recognized them and reported the security services about their infiltration, and the other group surrendered themselves after they managed to get out of ISIS last enclave, also people of those who fled confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the organization is greatly collapsed, and it cannot resist no more, where the organization depends in repelling the attacks, on the heavily-planted landmines, the booby trapped vehicles and the “suicide bombers”.

And the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory, that the number of those who fled is suggested to be the largest one ever, because of the entry of such large batch of trucks for the first time, to this enclave, where the number of the vehicles which entered previously to this area did not exceed 15 trucks, and the reliable sources suggested to the SOHR that with the exit of this batch, there will not be large numbers of citizens in ISIS enclave, while the Syrian Observatory learned that some of those who fled the enclave of the organization, and while being transported to Al-Omar Oilfield and before being sorted out into camps, pay large sums of money in order to get out to areas such as Al-Busayrah, Theban and Gharanij, where sums of money exceed $ 10,000 are paid for fear of being arrested when they reach the camps into which they are sorted out, and the sources suggested that in most cases, ISIS members and families of ISIS members are the ones who pay such sums of money, where they pay them to the parties that are responsible for the transport to the camps from Al-Omar Oilfield, the reliable sources also confirmed that a batch of those who were in the enclave of the organization at the eastern banks of the river, have fled towards the west of the Euphrates River.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that it obtained information from several cross intersected sources, confirming that the overwhelming majority of those who fled the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization and arrived the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas in Deir Ezzor countryside, have carried large amounts of money varied according to people, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: the majority of those who came out of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, who reached thousands of people in the last 40 days, they had insane amounts of money, where reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the money was mostly US dollars, and each person had between $100 thousand and $500 thousand USD, while the Iraqis who fled the enclave had at least $300 thousand USD, and little amounts of Syrian currency were found in their possession estimated by about tens of thousands of Syrian pounds, and most of the times did not exceed 50 thousand Syrian pounds, and the reliable sources confirmed that the majority of those who have got out are Iraqi families and of other non-Syrian nationalities, the local sources that managed to escape and exit from the enclave, confirmed that the organization is executing those who its arrests during their escape From the area; on charges of “going out to the land of infidel,” while those who went out have risked their lives in order to reach the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, , also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 19th of December 2018 that 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.