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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The bombings caused 200,000 displaced in Aleppo


The bloody army offensive Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo city led the United Nations says 200,000 displaced. In a statement, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Coordinator for Emergency Relief, Valerie Amos, said he was "extremely concerned" about the impact they are having on the civilian bombing and the use of heavy weapons, in Aleppo as in Damascus and the neighboring towns. Fighting in the commercial capital regarded as Syria continued on Monday while the regime suffered more defections, the more relevant the director of business affairs of the embassy in London. "The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Red Crescent Syrian Arab estimate that some 200,000 people have fled fighting in Aleppo and surrounding areas over the past two days. It is not known how many people still trapped in places where fighting continues, "said Amos.The high UN official said that "many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas," adding that these civilians "in urgent need of food, mattresses, blankets, medical supplies and water." Amos called on army and rebels both "allow humanitarian organizations safe access to carry emergency aid to help save the lives of people trapped by the fighting." Amos said it is "very difficult" for humanitarian agencies to reach civilians in Aleppo, Hama and elsewhere, and said that despite the danger of the situation, the Red Crescent and UN agencies assist. Last Friday, the Red Crescent announced the suspension of "certain operations" in Aleppo by the fighting.

Salahedin bombing

According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, at least 40 people including 30 civilians, were killed across the country. The fighting was particularly intense in Aleppo and focused Salahedin neighborhood, where according to the regime have been killed "a large number of terrorists of various nationalities," reports Reuters. However, the rebels are confident that the economic capital of Syria is the tomb of Al Asad, "Damascus is the capital, but here's a quarter of the population and all the country's economic potential. Here bury forces Bashar" said one of the rebels told Reuters.  The regime had given neighborhood Salahedin recovered yesterday. In a statement on state television, a uniformed officer said that "armed mercenaries have been completely expelled from Salahedin. Within a few days the security and order back to Aleppo." The Army used the same tactic in this city that he had used in Damascus this month, where he spent his entire artillery force to get the rebels to recede.

New defections

Meanwhile, on Monday met new defections within the regime. The most important was the director of business affairs of the Syrian embassy in London, Khaled al Ayubi. His resignation was announced by the Government of David Cameron, who in a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "is a new blow to the Assad regime and illustrates the disgust and despair that their actions cause between the Syrians from all sources, inside and outside the country. " According to the Office Foregign, Khalad asked to respect their privacy, will not grant interviews and decided to defect because"does not continue to represent a regime that has committed so violent and repressive acts against his own people." Al Ayubi joined the Syrian diplomatic service in 2001 and his first post was as consul in Greece from 2003 to 2008 . Became responsible for the embassy in London after the May 29 the UK to expel the former business manager, Ghassan Dalla, in a protest along with other countries for the killing of civilians in the Syrian city of Hula. Today also met the deputy desertion Police Latakia and 11 Syrian officers . Everyone fled to Turkey during the last morning, as confirmed by the government in Ankara which stood at 600 people who crossed the border within 24 hours, which increases the number of Syrian refugees to 43,500. The new defections join that of General Mohamed Tlass , Deputy Husameddin Abdo , and the Syrian ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Al Fares .

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