(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The New York-based international rights group said in a Wednesday report that an increasing proportion of Mosul residents is getting caught in the exchange of gunfire between government forces and Daesh terrorists.
Daesh is “indiscriminately or deliberately killing and wounding people for refusing to be human shields,” said the report, which is based on interviews with fleeing residents of Mosul.
It added that 19 people lost their lives and dozens more sustained injuries between the third week of November and the first week of the current month during the fighting, adding that the deaths were mainly caused by Daesh snipers as well as militant mortar attacks, car bombs and roadside bombings.
One of the witnesses, identified as Ammar told Human Rights Watch that Daesh terrorists began rounding up civilians to retreat with them before the army entered Mosul’s east, but many of them refused to help the militants.
“They were coming door-to-door, saying, ‘Do you want to leave with us or not?’” said “Ammar,” who fled the eastern Mosul neighborhood of Intisar after being wounded in a Daesh mortar strike on December 5.
“We said we would not go with them and they said,…‘Whatever happens to you guys, you deserve it,’” he added.
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