The IS siege of Der-Ezzor city for 250 thousands civilians, has entered its second year during part-silence by the local Syrian community, and complete silence by the international community, because the besieged civilians are still not able to show their suffering to the international media, in which time that their screaming and suffering are dramatically increasing day after day, hoping this screams reach the ears of who are able to help them, because their only fault was that they were out of the areas that controlled by the IS. SOHR activists in Der-Ezzor were able to observe and document their humanitarian situation in their areas which are controlled by the regime and loyal militiamen.

Since the beginning of 2015, the IS imposing a strict siege on the neighborhoods of al-Jora, al-Qosour, Harabish, and al-Baghila which are controlled by the regime in Der-Ezzor. The Siege started by preventing food and medical aids from entering these neighborhoods, what rose the prices of the food and supplements, the bag of bread that contains 10 pieces costs between 100-3000 SP, 1 liter of oil or 1 kg of Arabian butter costs 4500-6000 SP, 1 kg of beans costs 3000-4000 SP, Sugar and flour 200-2800 SP, Vegetables and fruits costs 100-2500 SP, cleaning supplies costs 75 – 5000 SP. What pushed the dealers to illegally transport these materials into the besieged areas by boats through the river of al-Furat or across Ayash area, as the IS raised the security around the river and killed at least 16 civilians who were attempting to get the materials.

The IS prevented civilians from entering regime areas and that started during the siege, at the same time the regime prevented civilians from entering IS areas except special cases after demands by local committees, or paying a large amount of money ” More than 100,000 SP ” for soldiers and officers in regime forces who used the Panorama area to illegally transport civilians walking through al-Badia reaching the western countryside of Der-Ezzor, what killed 2 men and a woman after loosing connection with them in al-Badia and starved to death. The regime areas witnessed a set-in by civilians demanding the regime to let them leave, after the regime announced a statement preventing people from leaving these areas except the elder and the sick who are being transported by helicopters or through Ayash ,SOHR activists reported that the IS transported civilians from its areas into Ma’dan city in al-Raqqa countryside which is in al-Khar state according to IS after seizing their military services books, and ID, searching their devices, and forcing the educated once to take Sharia courses, as it punished who helped their families to leave by lashing them or detonating their houses, SOHR activists documented 6 houses which have been destroyed for such cases.

The electricity is still cut from Der-Ezzor city since March/2015, generators are being used to supply the city for few hours, but many civilians are having troubles using the generators due to the high price of oil which enter the city by helicpters or Sadcop reservoirs in addition to use an oil field near al-Mahash station.

SOHR activists also observed only 3 active ovens, while all other ovens are inactive, also the sharp rise in oil prices caused a traffic of civilians lines who are fighting to get few pieces of bread, amid a dramatic decrease of clean water as the water filters only work for 8 hours every 4 days what caused skin illness in the city.

Dozens of men and young men joined the NDF and regime forces due to poor life conditions, in order to get a salary of 30,000 SP monthly.

The life conditions in Der-Ezzor pushed the red crescent to give 2 batches of aids earlier in 2015, the batches contain rise and butter, soap and water bowl. The poor life conditions in the city killed 21 civilians including children and caused malnutrition between civilians.

During connection between SOHR and international humanitarian organizations, the organizations said that the difficulties to transport the aids and the insecure roads prevented them from helping the besieged civilians and other organizations working with them are transporting drinking water to the besieged areas.

We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights demand to release the besieged neighborhoods of Der-Ezzor and Syria, and demand the international humanitarian organizations to make the efforts to immediately transport the aid to the besieged areas of Der-Ezzor, before they see other photos of children, women, and elders starving to death, just like what happened in Madaya recently and in the eastern Ghouta earlier, We also demand the international security council to release a statement to force all the parties in Syria to break the siege of all the besieged civilians in Syria.