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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The spokesperson for the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Sausan Ghosheh, said in a statement issued on Monday that they still have not confirmed the number of casualties in the city and called on all sides to immediately halt the violence and ensure the protection of civilians.
“UNSMIS calls on all sides to stop the killing and human rights abuses, to ensure the protection of civilians and to respect international law,” she added.
Earlier in the day, joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan voiced “grave concern” about the latest reports on the escalation of violence in Homs and Haffeh, saying there has been a spike in the fighting between government and opposition forces.
“There are indications that a large number of civilians are trapped in these towns,” Annan’s spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said in a statement issued in Geneva, and also told both sides to take steps to protect civilians.
Annan brokered a peace plan to end the violence, but each side in the conflict accuses the other of not complying with the terms of the plan.
Annan’s six-point plan, effective from mid-April, calls for the establishment of a cease-fire between the government and the opposition and also says humanitarian groups should be allowed to have access to the population, detainees should be released, and a political dialogue should be started.
The unrest in Syria began in March 2011, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of President Assad’s government.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters, but Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
AS/HGL
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