The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Ground shelling kills 9 children and women during their escape by smugglers from what is left for ISIS toward Deir Ezzor fearing being arrested by the Coalition and SDF

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a massacre took place during the last 48 hours, after targeting displaced people who tried to get out towards areas far from the last area where they were besieged in east of Euphrates, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: 9 citizens (6 children and 3 women) were killed on Saturday, where they were targeted when the smugglers attempted to get them out of the remaining enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization; towards an unknown destination, reliable sources suggested that the destination was areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor via the empty areas of the eastern Euphrates desert, where they were targeted by gunfire and rocket shells, reliable sources confirmed that their sourced was groups positioned near the area of the Syria Democratic Forces, which killed the 9 children and women, and information about the injury of others, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the smugglers take between $700 to $10000 USD, to transport those who want to get out, of who are afraid to be arrested by the International Coalition forces or Syria Democratic Forces, and the price varies between Syrian families and foreign and non-Syrian families.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory monitored renewed attacks carried out by members of the “Islamic State” Organization against the regime forces and the loyal militias of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: a group of ISIS members attacked the regime forces and their allies of the Iranian Forces and their loyal militias of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, at the east bank of Euphrates River, in an attempt by the remaining members of the Organization east of Euphrates to find a corridor for themselves towards the Syrian desert, after they failed to find a corridor towards the Iraqi Desert, and at the same time refusing to surrender to the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, where the International Coalition is searching for wanted by names and pictures among people who are getting out of the enclave towards areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in the area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the attack -which lasted from yesterday night until dawn on Sunday- killed at least 11 of the Organization’s members including 3 suicide bombers who blew themselves up, and this attack from the east bank of Euphrates River to the west bank of the river; was coincided with an attack by the Organization’s groups from the Syrian Desert, in an attempt by them to keep members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them busy, and trying to find a corridor for them towards the largest and last remaining enclave of the Organization west of Euphrates River, which stretches over about 4000 square kilometers.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that it rose to 36545 persons whose exit has been documented by the Syrian Observatory since the 1st of December 2018 until today, the 2nd of February 2019, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and more than 34495 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 3400 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.

And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, Friday the 1st of February 2019, that it monitored the exit of a new batch out of the last of what remained for the “Islamic State” Organization at the east bank of Euphrates River, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: 70 people mostly of women and children, including families of members of the “Islamic State” Organization of foreign nationalities, as well as men and members of the Organization, where they were able to get out after the afternoon of today, the first Friday of February 1st of February 2019, from the last areas of the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates, towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas the SOHR also published on Friday morning, that the Syria Democratic Forces have managed to remove and transfer more families of ISIS members, and of who remained in what is left for the Organization on the east bank of Euphrates River, where the Syrian Observatory monitored getting out about 150 people in the last hours of Russian and Uzbek nationalities, to areas of controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces aboard of several vehicles, and most of them are children and women, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded a video showing a Swiss girl of An Algerian origin talking about getting out of Algeria to Turkey via Europe, and arriving in Idlib then Hama and moving with her family to the countryside of Deir Ezzor and the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas.

The Syrian Observatory also monitored yesterday, the decrease in frequency of the military operations within the east Euphrates area, against the last enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that this comes in conjunction with preparations to get more of the remaining people who are stranded in ISIS enclave near the east bank of the river, coincided with the continuation of negotiations between the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition, and between leaders and members of the “Islamic State” Organization, to reach a consensus about the fate of the enclave and the fate of the remaining military commanders and members of different nationalities, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the Organization is trying to find a new escape for its members, but the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition are not accepting the proposals made by the Organization about its survival.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published earlier that the Syrian Observatory learned that the about 700 American soldiers who entered Syrian territory on the 23rd and 24th of January 2019 did not reach the east Euphrates area as they claimed to secure the withdrawal of the US Forces from the Syrian territory, where the Syrian Observatory’s reliable sources confirmed that the soldiers were of the Special Forces who arrived to arrest the first-ranks leaders of the “Islamic State” organization including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Organization -if he was alive-, where US Forces is transferring those who surrender to the US bases, amid uncertainty as to those who surrender themselves are still within the Syrian territory or being transferred to other regional areas to investigate them and obtain the largest amount of the most important information.