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Syria: One photo tells it all

The plight of the Syrians continues....and the world "talks" (well, in a limited way!) but does nothing to alleviate the horrors of what is happening in Syria itself as well as addressing the issue of  hundreds of thousands of refugees sitting in camps outside the war-torn country.



"Shelling broke a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in the government besieged Syrian city of Homs on Saturday as mortar rounds landed near an aid convoy as it tried to cross into the rebel-controlled old city district.

Syrian state television reported that four members of the Syrian Red Crescent were wounded in the attack, which it described as a terrorist attack and were trapped on the rebel side as night fell and the cease-fire expired.

Both sides accused the other of breaking the cease-fire. In a statement, the Red Crescent described the attack as deliberate but made no reference to who had conducted it. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based pro-opposition group that monitors violence in Syria, blamed government forces.

The difficulties in Homs came as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency announced that it had been told to stop its aid distribution program in the Yarmouk district of Damascus because of fighting.

In a statement, UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness said the agency was pressing authorities to let it continue the program, which has delivered 6,300 food parcels since Jan. 30. Each parcel is designed to feed between five and eight people for 10 days. An estimated 18,000 civilians remain in Yarmouk, which began its existence as a Palestinian refugee camp, but became an urban neighborhood that once was home to 160,000 people, including Syrians."

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