Alwaght- Dozens of ISIS group members and their families have reportedly crossed into areas controlled by the terrorists in eastern Syria, despite US airstrike on their convoy after they left the Lebanon-Syria border, Associated Press cited Syrian rebels as saying.
The news came after the head of US-led coalition said on Thursday the so-called anti-ISIS coalition's airstrikes thwarted the ISIS the 17-bus convoy attempt to reach eastern Syria, saying it is still stranded in the Syrian desert.
More than 300 terrorists and their families are in the convoy after vacating the border area as part of a Hezbollah-negotiated deal to transport them to an ISIS-held town in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
The pact was reached following the victories made by the Syrian armed forces in cooperation with the Lebanese national resistance Hezbollah in the Western Qalamoun area.
Lebanese Hezbollah movement said in a statement Saturday that warplanes of the US-led coalition are still preventing the convoy from moving east and barring anyone on the government side from reaching them warning that the wounded and elderly people could die.
Hezbollah said that six buses are still in areas controlled by the Syrian government and warned that if they are hit civilians will be killed. It added that if aid does not reach the convoy because of the aerial imposed siege, “only the Americans will bear the responsibility” for what happens.
“The so-called international community and international institutions should intervene to prevent the occurrence of an ugly massacre,” the Lebanese resistance movement said.
Earlier this week, an airstrike by the U.-led coalition created a crater in a road that the buses had intended to take and destroyed a small bridge to prevent the convoy from moving further east.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said dozens of fighters and civilians left the buses and drove into ISIS-held parts of the eastern province of Deir el-Zour in 12 civilian vehicles.
