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March 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But once they neared Baba Amr the government prevented the trucks, with
supplies of food, medical supplies and blankets, from entering.
“We are still in negotiations to enter Baba Amr,” said Hicham
Hassan, ICRC spokesman.
The Syrians said they were not letting the Red Cross into Baba Amr because of
safety concerns, including landmines, Mr Hassan said. He added that the
organisation had not been able to verify the danger themselves. The
government has not offered its explanation for revoking the permission.
“It’s important that we get in today,” Mr Hassan said. “We are
not about to give up.”
Other areas in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city with about a million people,
came under heavy shelling on Saturday. The Local Coordination Committees
activist network said mortars slammed into the districts of Khaldiyeh, Bab
Sbaa and Khader.
Abu Hassan al-Homsi, a doctor at a makeshift clinic in Khaldiyeh district of
Homs, said he treated a dozen people who were wounded, most lightly.
“This has become routine, the mortars start falling early in the morning,”
he said. Several homes were damaged from the morning shelling, which he
described as steady but intermittent.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Syria to give humanitarian workers
immediate access to people who desperately need aid.
“The images which we have seen in Syria are atrocious,” said Mr Ban. “It’s
totally unacceptable, intolerable. How, as a human being, can you bear this
situation?”
In other violence on Saturday, a suicide car bomb exploded in Daraa, killing
at least two people and wounding 20, activists said.
The state-run news agency said the blast occurred at a roundabout in an area
known as Daraa al-Balad and said there were casualties including civilians
and security forces.
Daraa is the birthplace of the nearly year-old uprising against Assad. The
revolt has killed more than 7,500 people, according to the most recent UN
estimate.
The regime has touted the attacks as proof that it is being targeted by “terrorists.”
The opposition accuses forces loyal to the government of being behind the
bombings to tarnish the uprising.
Saturday’s bombing in Daraa marked the first time a suicide bombing struck an
opposition stronghold.
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