The regime forces start storming Hawijat Katea’ and clash with members of the organization and fears for the fate of tens of civilians besieged in Hawija

Several reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that the regime forces started storming Hawija Katea, an island in the Euphrates River, near the outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, and the storming came after the regime forces and their allied militiamen advanced to the area through water bridges, and reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that clashes are taking place between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against members of ISIS existing in Hawija, amid fears for lives of about 150 civilians and concerns about shelling of the regime forces and violations against them, as the regime forces did in the past weeks against 40 civilians in the countryside of Deir Ezzor and the vicinity of the city, who were executed right after their arrest or targeting them in the outskirts of their controlled areas.

the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past 48 hours that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a man and his child were killed and his wife was wounded in the renewed shelling by the regime forces on Hwyjet Katea, which has tens of civilians who flee the clashes in Deir Ezzor city before being controlled by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, raising to at least 3, the number of persons who were killed since the start of shelling yesterday on the area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past few hours that the regime forces insist on achieving the Russian demand, to release two captives of the Russian forces of who were captured during counter attacks carried out by the “Islamic State” organization at the end of September 2017 and the beginning of October 2017, this insistence on achieving the Russian demand became clear after the regime forces extended water bridges and started to advance towards the out skirts of Hawija Katea which is a river island in the middle of the Euphrates River, where there are 150 citizens of those who escaped from Deir Ezzor city to it, as well as tens of member of ISIS, in which Russia and the regime forces have kept silent about the SOS’ of the citizens, although the both parties claimed that they came to “liberate the citizens”, but “the new liberators” became “the besiegers” and they threatened to target every boat may be sent by the Syria Democratic Forces to Hawija Katea to transport citizens to their controlled areas, while there is a fear for the lives of the citizens who some them were killed and injured, with the start of the regime forces to target Hawija Katea yesterday.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that The regime forces continue their shelling of areas in Hwyjet Katea’ in the Euphrates River at the outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, where the shelling wounded several people and killed a civilian man, and information about the death of 2 other citizen women as a result of the shelling that targeted tens of trapped people in the area, where the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that Russia, which claims to have humanity and is desperate to regain 2 of its captives to preserve its image before the public opinion of its supporters and citizens, has made about 150 Syrian civilians hostages of its decision, where it came with the regime forces claiming that it came to “liberate the civilians in Deir Ezzor”, where it took the presence of the “Islamic State” organization with the fleeing civilians to Hwyjet Katea’ as a pretext and opportunity to retrieve 2 of its captives who previously it denied their capture, until the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed their capture and the Organization published a video showing them after being captured in the clashes of Deir Ezzor at the end of September and the beginning October 2017, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the regime forces targeted Hwyjet Katea’ which is located in the Euphrates River and considered a River island, under the pretext of targeting the “Islamic State” organization, and caused the injuries of civilians in it, and information about the death of at least 2 women in this shelling, and this shelling came with the worsening of humanitarian situation of the citizens trapped for the 9th consecutive day between the forces of conflict.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Friday the 10th of November 2017 that no clear hope of survive for about 150 Syrian citizens who are still stuck in a river island in the outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, under fragile pretexts, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of the siege imposed on the citizens in Hawija Katea, in conjunction with the continuation the Russian obstinacy to open a way for saving the citizens, and the tenacity of the “Islamic State” organization in the area, of the presence of citizens using them as human armors, and a bridge to cross to a safe place, while the humanitarian situation is getting worse day after another, with the entry of the siege on Hawija Katea for the 9th consecutive day, amid fears for the citizens’ lives, who became hostages waiting for the design of the Russian or the “Islamic State” organization.