A U.S.-backed militia opened fire on displaced families were trying to reach their village in the northern countryside of Raqaa, leaving five people wounded, eyewitness said on Friday.
Al-Snadeed, tribesmen militia and key unit in the Syrian Democratic Forces, has prevented the displaced people from entering their village of al-Yarmouk. Tens of people were beaten and humiliated by al-Snadeed fighters.
The families accused the Kurdish-led forces of stealing their furniture and properties.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State said it had killed 30 SDF fighters in al-Jazra neighborhood in Raqqa city, the de facto capital of the ‘self-declared Caliphate.
The clashes still ongoing in Raqqa, residents said the trapped in the city.
On Thursday, 4 civilians from the same family were killed in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes on the neighborhood of al-Intifada, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said.
Intensified coalition air strikes have killed at least 300 civilians in Raqqa since March, as U.S.-backed forces close in on the stronghold of Islamic State forces, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led coalition, began to attack Raqqa a week ago to take it from the jihadists. The SDF, supported by heavy coalition air strikes, have taken territory to the west, east and north of the city.
"Coalition air strikes have intensified around the city," said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry.
"As the operation is gaining pace very rapidly, civilians are caught up in the city under the oppressive rule of ISIL, while facing extreme danger associated with movement due to excessive air strikes," he told reporters.
The SDF took neighborhood of Roumaniya, Sinaa, al-Mashlab and parts of al-Sebahiya. As well they took the villages of al-Dhaher and al-Sihl al-Gharbi in the western countryside.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has urged the U.S.-led coalition battling to capture ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa to make the protection of civilians its priority in the campaign.
Separately, Human Rights Watch expressed concern in a statement about the use of incendiary white phosphorous weapons by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, saying it endangered civilians when used in populated areas.
White phosphorus is not banned as a chemical weapon and can legally be used on battlefields to make smoke screens, generate illumination, mark targets or burn bunkers and buildings. But it can cause serious burns and start fires.