UN to send aid to besieged Syrians

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UN to send aid to besieged Syrians

Breakthrough for the Hungry: The Syrian government wants the supply of humanitarian aid allow. Hundreds of thousands of people in the country is under siege. The agreed cease-fire is still in the distant future.

In the Syrian Duma came already on Saturday, help: employees of the Red Crescent distributing humanitarian goods

The United Nations want to be at this Wednesday Hilfskonvois in several besieged cities in Syria. This was confirmed by the UN-Syrienbeauftragte Staffan de Mistura for talks in Damascus. Previously, he had with foreign Minister Walid Muallim the “free access” for assistants to the cut-off villages has been agreed. According to the United Nations living in Syria about 486.000 people in besieged cities and villages.

As the UN-Nothilfebüro Ocha in the Jordanian capital of Amman announced that essential goods, among other things, to the government troops switched places Madaja, Sabadani and Madamijet al-sham in the Region of Damascus, to be sent, as well as in the rebel besieged places Fuaa and Kafraja in the North as well as to the Regime enclave of Dair al-Saur in the sphere of the Terrormiliz “Islamic state” (IS).

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Hopes stifled

De Mistura was in Damascus for the cease-fire advertised on the international Syria contact group in the night to Friday in Munich had agreed. President Bashar al-Assad had the hope for an imminent cease-fire, but
already on Monday evening suffocated.

The spiral of violence continues to rotate. Air strikes by the US-led coalition, in the northeast of the country, according to opposition 15 civilians killed. In the city of Al-Schahadi near the border with Iraq was a bakery have been taken, said the Syrian Observatory for human rights. Al-Schahadi deemed logistically important for the Terrormiliz “Islamic state” (IS), against which the air strikes the coalition. By the city several important roads. Should the IS the control you lose, would be the self-proclaimed IS capital of Rakka in isolation.

Hospital in ruins: Destroyed hospital in the Syrian Idlib (15.02.2016)

In the case of attacks on hospitals and schools in Aleppo and Idlib were on Monday, according to UN figures, almost 50 civilians have been killed. One of the clinics was by the aid organisation Doctors without borders supports. The Syrian Observatory, which is based on a network of activists based, made in this case Russia responsible for the attack.

Turkish artillery shoots over the border

Also, the Turkish army continues its attacks in Syria to continue. According to the Observatory to handle the Turkish artillery on Tuesday morning, the nordsyrische town of Tall Rifaat, the Kurdish Volksverteidigungseinheiten (YPG) with other militias previously from the rival rebels had conquered. Ankara considers the YPG as a Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan workers ‘ party (PKK).

The Turkey spoke again for the use of ground troops against “all terrorist groups” in Syria. For Ankara, such a use but not single-handedly conceivable, said a representative of the government. Saudi Arabia and Qatar had also their willingness to participate in a Bodentruppeneinsatz signals. Western countries have rejected this so far.

Meanwhile, the flying Dutch fighter planes for the first time, attacks on positions of the IS-jihadists in Syria, such as the Ministry of defence in The Hague announced. The Netherlands are participating since October 2014 air strikes of the international Anti-IS coalition in Iraq. At the end of January, the government had in The Hague decided, the useful radius of their fighter jets to Syria, to expand.

jj/rb (dpa, afp, rtr)