The fighters of the state organization besieged inside the last enclave in eastern Syria are divided between those who want to fight to the death in defense of the "caliphate" and others who tend to choose to surrender or try to escape an inevitable fate.
Syria's democratic forces are estimated to have hundreds of fighters trapped in half a square kilometer inside the town of Baguoz, along with large numbers of civilians, despite the evacuation of more than nine thousand people in a week, mostly from the families of fighters.
At the screening point for the Baguoz exits, Ahmad al-Joura, 32, one of the few men Syria's democratic forces allowed media correspondents to talk to on Tuesday, questions the ability of the organization's fighters to hold for a long time.
"There are those who want to fight, others do not want to, and some want to flee," Ahmed told AFP.
According to Ahmed, the organization's fighters no longer have "fighting elements" and asks, "There is no more food, so how do you fight? The weapon needs the strength to carry it."
The organization, which took control of large areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq, which was the equivalent of Britain, retained only a number of houses in the al-Bagouz and Jaema where its fighters and civilians live.
Women are told that a state-run car was traveling in the besieged area and specifically told the families and the wounded that they had the freedom to choose whether to stay or go to Syria's democratic forces.
With so many "widgets," one woman explains, "Only those who have money are able to buy, but we do not eat one day or another."
With the support of the Washington-led international coalition, some 50,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled the enclave since December, according to human rights sources.