Security chaos in SDF-held areas | Unknown assailants target house in Deir ez-Zor countryside, and others demand zakat

Deir ez-Zor Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen opened fire on the house of a civilian in the city of Al-Busayrah, east of Deir ez-Zor, and then fled on their motorcycles to an unknown destination. No casualties have been reported.

In this context, SDF surrounded the neighbourhood where the targeted house is located and toured the city’s neighbourhoods.

It is worth nothing that the civilian’s house was shot four times after members of the Islamic State demanded him pay zakat.

Meanwhile, unknown assailants threatened a civilian who owns a wedding dress shop in Abu Hammam town in eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside to kill him if he did not pay zakat to the Islamic State.

Moreover, unknown persons also burned a civilian car belonging to an SDF member, after he parked it in al-Busayrah town in eastern Deir al-Zour countryside.  

SOHR activists said earlier that a man stood at the minbar of Al-Safa mosque in the city of al-Busayrah in eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, after the end of Friday prayers yesterday, and demanded that residents not pay money to people who ask them to pay zakat as being from the Islamic State.

The man accused the SDF of turning a blind eye to these people as if it is not their concerne. This comes in light of increasing incidents of money requests from residents in al-Busayrah and surrounding areas by people claiming to be from the Islamic State.