Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have arrested 4 members of the negotiation committee of the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city as they were meeting with regime officials over the deteriorating situation in the last rebel stronghold in the central city.
Homs Media Centre of Homs said the security committee has called the negotiation committee of al-Waer, for a meeting in the Automatic bakery at the edge of the neighborhood, but 4 members of the committee were detained and sent to an unknown place.
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Activists detailed that the arrest happened when the negotiation reached to a close end.
In the beginning of December 2015, an agreement between the regime and the negotiation committee was reached to and included many points, the most importantly was ceasing fire and allowing the food and medical aid to enter the neighborhood, and release siege and letting wounded and patients to leave the al-Waer for treatment, added to freeing more detainees.
The agreement conditioned that each step needs to be finalized before moving to the next one.
The regime has not abide by the agreement especially the section related to detainees, beside continuous shelling and bombing of al-Waer, last was yesterday when the neighborhood was bombed with heavy arms resulted in killing 4 people including an infant, besides 15 wounded including women and children.
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