After the preparations of the military operation east of the Euphrates, the SDF shelled the enclave of ISIS of the Euphrates River

Deir Ezzor province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: ISIS held areas controlled by ISIS in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Heavy shelling targets since Monday morning the 29th of April 2018 the areas. The SOHR monitored rocket and artillery shelling by the SDF and the international coalition targeted areas in Hajin town and the enclave remained under the control of ISIS at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, amid firing heavy machine guns at areas in the town, in conjunction with battles every now and then between the SDF backed by the international coalition against ISIS members.

The heavy shelling comes with the preparations being carried out by the SDF and the international coalition forces to begin military operation against the regime. The SOHR published yesterday that the eastern and northern countryside of Deir Ezzor and the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, are witnessing alertness by the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, in conjunction with air alertness witnessed in the area east of the Euphrates River, as a part of preparations by them for starting a massive military operation aims to end the presence of the “Islamic State” organization in the entire east of the Euphrates River, where the presence of the organization is concentrated in an enclave that includes 4 villages and towns on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River which are Al-Bahra, Hajin, Abu al-Hassan, Sha’afah, Al-Baghuz, and the organization is also presented in the part in the north-eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which is connected with the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah which still include 22 villages and areas including Tal Al-Jaber, Tal al-Mnakh, Om Haffur, al-Rimat, Fakkah al-Tarraf, Fakkah al-Shwaykh, al-Hessu, al-Bawardi, al-Dshishiyah, Bajari Desert adjacent al-Suwar Desert which includes the administrative borders between Deir Ezzor and Al-Hasakah.

Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that this alertness is coincided with bringing military reinforcements from Al-Omar Oilfield and other areas controlled by the SDF, to the fronts with the organization, of vehicles, materiel, equipment, ammunition and fighters, amid the flight of reconnaissance planes and the International Coalition’s warplanes over the area, and their targeting from time to time to the  controlled areas of the organization and its positions and arsenals, while the eastern banks of the Euphrates River are witnessing rounds of fighting from time to time, between the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition against the “Islamic State” organization, and the sources confirmed to the SOHR that the military operation will be launched in the next 48 hours to end the presence of the organization completely in the area.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published in early April 2018, that it monitored the continuation arrival of new vehicles to al-Omar oilfield since about 48 hours ago until now, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: tens of vehicles carrying on board materiel and equipment have arrived at the al-Omar oilfield, which is taken by the American forces as a military base in the east of Euphrates River.