(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Saturday launched several vacuum missiles strikes on civil residence in besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local activists reported.
The sources said according to preliminary reports, the regime air strikes injured scores and inflicted fear and panic on thousands of besieged civilians in the neighborhood.
The Assad forces dangerously escalated offensives on the neighborhood in the past few days following threats by Chief of State Security branch in Homs Uqab Saqir to pressure neighborhood committee to evacuate rebels from the last rebel stronghold in the city of Homs.
The escalation comes in conjunction with implementation of agreement to evacuate Daraya in Damascus countryside from rebels and population.
Al-Assad regime is threatening military escalation to pressure the negotiation committee in al-Waer to accept its conditions to continue the agreement stages. The regime and the negotiations committee signed a truce in December 2015 under United Nations sponsorship.
The regime has previously tried to counter the agreement, announcing that it will only commit in principle to revealing the fate of detainees whose names were included in a list of over 7350 detainees sent by the committee to the regime for release. This is considered one of the most important of the agreement clauses which must be executed in the second stage of the agreement.
Based on the agreement, that the first stage includes a ceasefire, the entry of medical and food assistance, the end of the siege on the neighborhood residents, and the exit of a batch of rebels, especially injured persons.
The second stage dictates that detainees will be released, rebels will hand over part of their weapons, and in the third stage the rebels will complete the handover of their weapons and leave the neighborhood following the release of another batch of detainees. The agreement clauses included a condition that no stage is implemented until both parties complete the implementation of the previous stage in its entirety.
The UN estimates that five years on, the conflict has killed more than 400,000 people and driven 4.8 million refugees to neighboring countries, hundreds of thousands in Europe, and displaced 6.6 million people inside the Syria against a pre-war population of over 20 million.
The sources said according to preliminary reports, the regime air strikes injured scores and inflicted fear and panic on thousands of besieged civilians in the neighborhood.
The Assad forces dangerously escalated offensives on the neighborhood in the past few days following threats by Chief of State Security branch in Homs Uqab Saqir to pressure neighborhood committee to evacuate rebels from the last rebel stronghold in the city of Homs.
The escalation comes in conjunction with implementation of agreement to evacuate Daraya in Damascus countryside from rebels and population.
Al-Assad regime is threatening military escalation to pressure the negotiation committee in al-Waer to accept its conditions to continue the agreement stages. The regime and the negotiations committee signed a truce in December 2015 under United Nations sponsorship.
The regime has previously tried to counter the agreement, announcing that it will only commit in principle to revealing the fate of detainees whose names were included in a list of over 7350 detainees sent by the committee to the regime for release. This is considered one of the most important of the agreement clauses which must be executed in the second stage of the agreement.
Based on the agreement, that the first stage includes a ceasefire, the entry of medical and food assistance, the end of the siege on the neighborhood residents, and the exit of a batch of rebels, especially injured persons.
The second stage dictates that detainees will be released, rebels will hand over part of their weapons, and in the third stage the rebels will complete the handover of their weapons and leave the neighborhood following the release of another batch of detainees. The agreement clauses included a condition that no stage is implemented until both parties complete the implementation of the previous stage in its entirety.
The UN estimates that five years on, the conflict has killed more than 400,000 people and driven 4.8 million refugees to neighboring countries, hundreds of thousands in Europe, and displaced 6.6 million people inside the Syria against a pre-war population of over 20 million.
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