The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Despite preparations of Hajin battle, more food trucks enter the organization’s enclave on the east bank of Euphrates and those who wish to go to SDF areas can do so

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the last 24 hours the entry and exit of people from and to areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, in the last enclave that is under its control in the east bank of Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where several civilians accompanied by vehicles carrying food entered areas controlled by ISIS, coincided with displacement of Iraqi-national families from the ISIS-controlled enclave to areas control by the SDF, where they were taken by the Syria Democratic Forces to camps within their controlled areas in al-Hasaka Province, also several wounded people have gotten out of areas controlled by ISIS at the east bank of Euphrates river for treatment, and this comes days after the entry of about 20 trucks loaded with foodstuffs, in two batches to the same areas controlled by the organization, coming from areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, despite the preparations that have been taking place to carry out a military operation against the organization in Hajin area and the entire enclave.

Also, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information about opening a river crossing between the Syria Democratic Forces’-controlled areas east of Euphrates river; and between regime forces’-controlled areas west of Euphrates river at the area of al-Hawayej and al-Mayadin city, and this is the first time a river crossing has been opened between the areas controlled by both parties, after the infiltration by ISIS from its areas of presence on the east bank of Euphrates river towards areas controlled by the regime forces, and launching a large-scale military operations, most notably the attack where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 5th of July 2018 that  the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, managed to restore most of positions which they had lost for members the “Islamic State” organization during its violent attack which targeted a front of about 100 km along the west banks of Euphrates River, from the west of Al-Bokamal to the east of Al-Mayadin, where the regime forces managed to attack again which forced the organization to leave its positions and withdraw to the Desert, in order to prevent the fall of large number of human losses in its ranks, and to be able to re-attack in the next days, where the organization aims through these repeated attacks, to confuse the regime, and to strain it and to inflict the largest possible number of casualties in the ranks of the regime and its allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the fact that the Russian warplanes have not been intensively involved in supporting the regime forces and pushing the attack of the organization on the area, and the attacks which have completed 48 hours, resulted in the fall of a large number of casualties in the ranks of the both parties.