Violent clashes in areas in the east of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor between the SDF and ISIS

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the fighting is still continuing in areas in the east of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that violent clashes are taking place between the Syria Democratic Forces against the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in al-Kashkiyyeh and Abu Hamam towns and other places in the vicinity of Abu Hardoub area, amid exchange artillery and rocket shelling between the both parties, in an attempt by the forces of “Al-Jazeera Storm” Operation led by the SDF to advance and take the control of the area and to minimize ISIS scope of control in the area.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it rose to 327, including 85 children below the age of eighteen, and 61 women, the number of civilians who were killed and documented by the SOHR since the 8th of November 2017, the date of beginning the first operation on Al-Bukamal city, until today the 25th of December 2017, the date of ending the presence of ISIS west of the Euphrates,  due to the shelling by the regime forces and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, airstrikes by Russian and regime warplanes, airstrikes by the International Coalition’s warplanes. The martyrs are 202 citizen including 59 children and 37 women, who were killed in airstrikes by Russian and regime warplanes on villages and towns and cities of the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and 26 citizens including 15 children and 5 women, who were killed in shelling, the sources said its source was the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, and 60 citizens including 14 women and 8 children were killed in shelling by International Coalition’s warplanes, and 39 citizens including a 3 children and 5 women who were killed in shelling by the regime forces by artillery and missiles shells on areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the artillery, missile and aerial shelling targeted villages, cities and towns of Abu Hamam, al-Kashkiyyeh, Darnaj, Al-Bokamal, Marashdah, Sha’afah, Sbikhan, Al-Abbas, Al-Baghuz, Al-Siyyal, Hasrat, Al-Ghira, Hajin, and other areas on the banks of the Euphrates River, and the camps of Souh Al-Rifai, Al-Sukkariya, and gathering of civilians near water crossing between both banks, while the aerial and ground shelling left about 515 others injured with different severity, including tens of children and women, and some of the injured suffered imputations and permanent disabilities, while there is number of the missing, whose fate is still unknown, and some of the injured are still in serious conditions, which may increase the death toll.