The comments come as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the
deaths of 98 people across the country on Wednesday, half of whom were
civilians.
Reports indicate renewed fighting on Thursday with machinegun and mortar fire
in and around Homs killing at least four people.
Meanwhile two civilians have been killed in the town of Qusayr to the
south-west of Homs by heavy government shelling as helicopters hovered
overhead. Elsewhere, clashes between government forces and rebels in the
north-western province of Iblib in Deraa in the south have killed at least
15 people.
The violence continues despite an agreed temporary truce between both sides to
allow the International Committee of the Red Cross and Arab Red Crescent to
evacuate injured civilians from Homs and distribute humanitarian goods such
as medical kits in the neighbourhoods that have endured shelling and clashes
for the past 10 days.
“Hundreds of civilians are stuck in the old city of Homs, unable to leave
and find refuge in safer areas, because of the ongoing armed confrontations,”
said the ICRC’s head of operations for the region, Beatrice Megevand-Roggo.
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