The noose around the neck of ISIS closes in more and more. The gangs stuck in the city centre have contaminated the city with countless mines. Almost at every corner and every street of the city mines have been planted.

The ISIS gangs resort to all means available to stretch their lifespan, that is coming to an end. In the urban warfare, the ISIS gangs use their hostages and the civilian population of Raqqa as living shields. Those civilians that are trapped in Raqqa's city centre encircled by ISIS gangs, are being rescued by the SDF in special operations.

On the eastern front of Raqqa a high rate of civilians has been rescued and relocated to safe areas through a secure corridor by the SDF units in these last two weeks alone.

The SDF forces are tracing and taking out the positions of the ISIS gangs and put massive efforts into the safety of the civilians. The security of the civilian population is a priority in all those operations and also their basic needs like health, food and water are met by the SDF fighters.

As soon as civilians are secured in the city centre of Raqqa, they are driven immediately to the next medical check point at the front.

Particularly women and children are taken to the medical centre first, and no matter how much there is a lack of means, the doctors and nurses on site make nevertheless the best out of it, saving the lives of hundreds of civilians. One of those examples occurred once again yesterday:

The fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces took a five-person family they freed from the ISIS gangs to the medical check point. Due to a mine explosion they suffered heavy injuries from head to toe. At the medical checkpoint for administering first aid, the medics applied all efforts they could muster but the medical equipment and the medicine at hand were far off from covering the necessary requirements. Raqqa has witnessed such a happening, that could fill the pages of history. The doctor actually needed to narcotize a baby, who was whimpering in pain, but the anaesthesia that was left was not even enough for the mother.

They had to use the remaining the anaesthesia to narcotize the wounded mother instead. As the narcosis they injected the mother with showed its first effects, tranquillizing the injured women, the doctor asked the mother to breastfeed her crying baby. She pulled herself together and breast-fed the baby, that was crying bitterly in pain. The effects of the narcosis that went over into the mother milk as well pacified the toddler at once.

The other wounded persons were transferred to the hospital in Hesekê, after their initial treatment here.

Everyone watched this incident in the medical station with awe, new hope and pride. One of the most vital aspects that makes the battle for Raqqa a legend, are these hardships suffered at Raqqa's front and the unprecedented resistance.