Jassem trapped in Qana camp as PYD refuses to let him get treatment

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A disabled Syrian child with sever illness has failed for the fifth day to leave the Kurdish-held Qana refugee camp in northern Hasaka province.

Jassem Hawwash, 7-year-old, who needs urgent health care has been trapped in the camp as the powerful Kurdish PYD militia not allowing his family to leave.

More than 5,000 people from Arab tribes fled ISIS-held territories in Deir Ezzor to find shelter in Qana camp, such a flee faced with lack of aid and healthcare in the deserted camp.

Hundreds of Deir Ezzor families keep fleeing the battleground province to Hasaka, enduring themselves to risk of being killed by the airstrikes of Russian and US-led coalition.

At least 14 fleeing people killed late on Thursday in Russian airstrikes on Deir Ezzor, topping death toll of strikes on displaced people to 62 in 72 hours, local media group said.

Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted civilians were trying to cross the Euphrates River aboard rafts from Mahkan village near Mayadin city, escaping from areas where Russian-backed regime forces are battling the Islamic State group.

Last month, the regime army broke a years-long IS siege of government enclaves in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

The major offensive on ISIS territories in eastern Syria has left more than 3000 people killed including 955 civilians since September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, according to the Syrian Observatory for human Rights.

The 955 civilians killed in September included 207 children, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria for its information.

Meanwhile, the Syrian regime army and its allies have advanced to within 10 km of Mayadin, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said Friday, bringing them close to a city seen as the current main base of ISIS.

They have won control of positions and heights parallel to the main road linking Deir Ezzor and Mayadin, located on the Euphrates in eastern Syria, the media unit said.