The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The International Coalition pressures the remaining ISIS members with bombardment and the latter promises civilians with a safe passage within a few hours or days

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the International Coalition continues its negotiations with the remaining members of the “Islamic State” Organization in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, while a bombardment was carried out on Thursday by the International Coalition in an attempt to pressure members of the Organization to force them to surrender, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the “Islamic State” Organization promised the remaining civilians within the its last areas that a safe passage will be secured for them within the next few hours or days, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that the besiege and closing the way out of the “Islamic State” Organization area east of Euphrates not only increased the tragedy of the remaining civilians, but after that the hunger and the rise of prices came to increase this tragedy, where the Syrian Observatory obtained information from local sources within what is left of areas for the Organization (which is about 4 square kilometers), that the area is witnessing a significant rise in the prices of the remaining foodstuffs inside the besieged enclave on the east bank of Euphrates River, where  the prices of sugar reached more than 10000 Syrian pounds per kilogram and the rice 18000 Syrian pounds per kilogram, amid poor purchasing power among those who remained, as they do not have enough money to buy milk or food for them and for their children trapped with them, also the smuggling prices reached large sums of money ranging between 1500$ and 3000$ US dollars per person to get them out of the enclave, and sometimes it reached more than 10000$ USD for foreigners wanting to get out of the enclave, to get them to their destination through smuggling routes into al-Busayrah area through roads from the desert, in which members of the Syria Democratic Forces are not present, while the tragedy increases as the leaders and members of the “Islamic State” Organization take the remaining civilians as human shields, so theta they do not get bombard by the International Coalition, which is preparing with the Syria Democratic Forces to completely end the presence of ISIS in the area in the coming days, and the reliable sources from within the enclave of the Organization confirmed that the smuggling road is long not to mention the bad weather, also the forces deployed in the vicinity of the enclave target any movement from the inside of the enclave to the outside of it, where some families were forced to return to the enclave after being targeted, and these families lost the money they were going to pay to the smugglers when they arrive to their destination, putting them in front of an unknown fate, and through the Syrian Observatory the residents demanded the International Coalition and SDF to open the road in front of the people getting out of the enclave to reach the areas they want to go out to, and then making sure of their identity and affiliations, where they confirmed to the Syrian Observatory how much the situation is tragic, amid fears for their lives from shelling by the coalition or the forces around the area.

Reliable sources confirmed again to the Syrian Observatory that tens of children, women, and old people are ill as a result of the poor living, severe shortages of medicines and food, high prices of existing ones, and not to mention the lack of medical care, as the members of the Organization keep the supply to themselves and not giving it for those they take as human shields, and in recent days and weeks the Syrian Observatory has monitored an increase in numbers of casualties as more citizens die due to the deterioration of their health during while they were waiting to be transferred to al-Hool camp, where some of them have gotten out of the pocket with bad health conditions, and the Syrian Observatory documented the rise in number of people who died in al-Hool camp and on the road of death to it, where at least 28 people died due to the cold, illnesses they suffered, deteriorating health condition, and the shortage of medicines and necessary treatment during the process of movement and exit from IS enclave at east bank of Euphrates in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, until they arrive at al-Hool camp, where some of them died as they were getting out of the enclave, while others died in the road to the camp, and among the casualties there are 9 people died due to difficult health conditions.

The Syrian Observatory documented the arrival of tens of people from the remaining area of the organization to Syria Democratic Forces, and it rose to 37085, the number of persons whose exit has been documented by the Syrian Observatory since the 1st of December 2018 until today, the 6th of February 2019, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and more than 35035 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.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the launch of operations of the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces; to end the existence of the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates completely, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: Coalition forces sent military reinforcements from their bases east of Euphrates towards areas near the fronts with the remaining area of the Organization at the east bank of Euphrates River, and the Syrian Observatory recorded a video showing the vehicles as they were heading through the international road towards the east of Deir Ezzor coming from al-Hasaka countryside, as part of preparations to start military operation against the remaining leaders and members, who refused to surrender and seek at the same time to find an exit towards the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor through smugglers, or to the last enclave of the Organization in the west of Euphrates within the Syrian Desert north of al-Sokhna, by infiltration operations through Euphrates River to the west bank of the river.