Lack of electricity and water, shortage of the food, closed and destructed hospitals, and suicide attempts… About 2900 people killed are within the worst 100 days in al-Raqqa

“no food, no medicine, no electricity, and the death is everywhere,,,,” said those people still alive in al-Raqqa city, which warplanes, missiles, bomb, mines and bullets are killing many of its people and yet still hungry for more death, which seems like they are becoming addict to killing more humans of this city, as the death is still increasing since 100 days

 

The SOHR monitored detail of lives of civilians and their lamentable humanitarian conditions in al-Raqqa city. The SOHR received information from several reliable sources about citizens of al-Raqqa city still living in the city, and other fled it. Local sources told the SOHR that the humanitarian and living conditions are deteriorating day after another, and that the humanitarian conditions are becoming dire and very tragic, as the storage of food is diminishing, as the citizens intended earlier to store legumes, grains and other materials that could be kept for a long time, while the electricity and drinkable don’t exist in the city.

The sources asserted to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the medical services are missing in the city, with a severe shortage of medicines and medical materials and sterilization tools and other tools, and the people asserted that the “Islamic State” organization established medical centers to aid its members, while the hospitals located in the organization-held areas are closed or destroyed, and it is not allowed to aid any civilians in these ISIS centers, where lots of injured people remained untreated, following an oral orders from the organization that everyone help himself. All the roads leading to the city are completely or partially closed due to the heavy shelling that caused the destruction to buildings and streets in the city, where more than 80% of the city is uninhabitable as a result of the destruction, while thousands of civilians are still trapped within the areas controlled by the organization in the neighborhoods of al-Amin and other neighborhoods still held by the organization north of the city.

The reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that the number of members of ISIS is dramatically decreasing and the number of remained ISIS members estimated to be 300 to 400 people. While the sources said that the members of the organization blow themselves up even before the arrival of the SDF and the US Special Forces to the areas close to them, and the people attributed this to the psychological conditions and the pressure they suffer due to the tightening up on them and because there is no way out of this city, while residents asserted that the organization limited the usage of the internet to citizens for only once a day, and those who get caught while using the internet are executed by the organization on charges of “spying for the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces”

This tragic humanitarian situations, which are deteriorating day after another came with the advancement of the Syria Democratic Forces by controlling more than two-thirds of the city, where the Syria Democratic Forces are now in control of 67.2% of Al-Raqqah city, and now the organization controls less than one-third of the city, as it controls Andalos, Shamal Sekket al-Qitar, Huriyah, Teshreen and Tawassoiya in the northern part of Raqqa city, while ISIS still controls with varying percentages other neighborhoods, where clashes between the SDF against ISIS are taking place, they are al-Bareed and al-Nahda in the western part of the city, and the neighborhoods of al-Amin in the center of the city of Raqqa, and al-Rawda and al-Rumaila northeast of Raqqa city, while the SDF controlled the neighborhoods of Sabahiya, Romaniya, Hutteen, Qadisiyah, Yarmouk, and al-Karim west of Raqqa city, the neighborhoods of Hisham Abdul Malik, Nazlat Shhada in the southern part of the city, and al-Sena’aa, al-Mashlab and the Old City and al-Batani in the eastern part of the city, and the neighborhoods of Dar’eiyah, Morur, al-Mansour and al-Thakanah. The SDF also reached the outskirts of the neighborhoods of al-Amin and controlled parts of the neighborhoods of Rumila, Rawda, Bareed and al-Nahda.

The battles in al-Raqqah city between the SDF backed by the US Special Forces against ISIS caused more causalities among civilians, as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 1047 citizens including an activist in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 245 children and 173 citizen women, they were killed in Al-Raqqah city and its countryside since the 5th of June 2017 until the 14th of September 2017, and the casualties are 1031 citizens including 242 children at least under the age of eighteen and 169 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in Al-Raqqah city, in addition to 16 citizens including 3 children and 4 citizen women were killed by raids on Zor Shammar village and another area on the southern banks of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah, the air strikes also resulted in the injury of hundreds of citizens with varying degrees of severity, some of them have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities, while some of the injuries are still in serious cases, which may lead to the increase of the number of casualties, while dozens of houses and service facilities were destroyed in the city, as a result of this intensive bombing, which targeted Al-Raqqah city and its vicinity and outskirts.

The SOHR also documented that the international coalition airstrikes and the heavy bombardment on al-Raqqa city and its outskirts along with the military offensives in the city that included shelling, bombings and clashes with the “Euphrates Wrath” Operations Forces, which is composed of the Syria Democratic Forces, the Syrian Elite Forces, and the US Special Forces backed by the International Coalition’s warplanes caused – since the launching of the battle until today the 6th of September 2017 until today the 14th of September 2017– the death of at least 1163 members of the “Islamic State” organization including two local  figures and commanders of groups, amid confirmed information about death of other members, in addition to injuring tens of them with varying degrees of severity.

Also, the SOHR documented in the same period the death of 537 fighters of the “Euphrates Wrath” including 2 fighters from the Syrian Elites Forces, a Syriac Security Force fighter, 5 fighters of American, Georgian, British and Turkish nationalities, while the rest of them are from the Syria Democratic Forces, whose main pillar is the YPG, and fighters of Manbij Military Council, who were killed during clashes against the “Islamic State” organization and due to bombings in al-Raqqa city and the southern banks of Euphrates River.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 129 civilians including 30 child and 7 citizen women in mine explosions while they were trying to get out of areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in Al-Raqqah city, to areas controlled by the SDF since the 5th of June 2017 until today the 14th of September 2017, in addition to the injury of tens of other civilians.