24 Civilian casualties killed by Coalition warplanes in Al-Raqqah city raise the death toll to 85 and more than half of them are children and women killed within 4 days in the city

Al-Raqqah Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: International Coalition warplanes continue carrying out massacres against civilians of Al-Raqqah city, the citizens who were forced by the conditions to remain within the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of no less than 24 civilians including 8 children under the age of eighteen, 7 citizen women over the age of eighteen including 11 people of one family and 3 others from another family, also other people were injured, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation and due to the presence of missing persons, this massacre raiser number of persons who were killed and documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since the afternoon of Monday the 14th of August 2017 to at least 83, including 29 children under the age of eighteen and 16 woman over the age of eighteen. The death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation and others persons are still missing, and it is not known whether they were killed or they are still alive.

These massacres are accompanied by worsening of humanitarian situation of civilians within the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas in Al-Raqqah city, who were escaping the inevitable death hovering around them and their families to faraway areas; only to find death waiting for them on the way of salvation. Such fear of death was accompanied by the lack of a lot of food items and significant decrease in others. Reliable sources confirmed the absence of vegetables and fruits in the city market in addition to the significant shortage in medicines and drinking water and their surging prices. Thus, the civilians still residing in Al-Raqqah depend mainly on grains, rice and legumes which have been stored by the city citizens or the shops.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on Thursday that hundreds of civilians managed to flee through the past 48 hours from areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in Al-Raqqah city, and reached areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in the city and its outskirts and surroundings.