The war on the besieged city is fateful, Head of Homs Local council said in a message delivered to the national Council and to the Chiefs of Staff; losing the city will be big loss to the revolution and to the opposition, losing the war will be unbearable tough loss, he added.
local council president expressed his big fears and worries if the opposition will not act quickly.
Pointing out to something very weird and unintelligible; why all this
negligence to the capital of Syrian revolution.
He also inquired about the
fate of the promised qualitative arms, stressing that some deny that it
received something in the first place.
And ended the head of the
local council in Homs his repeated warning of what he called "something
wrong" unexplained toward the capital of revolution, describing the battle
now as decisive, "either to victory or defeat"
Assad's forces launched a
major offensive in the last two days against rebels in Homs, a centre of the
two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting
Damascus to the Mediterranean.
Activists said jets and
mortars had pounded rebel-held areas of the city that have been under siege by
Assad's troops for a year, and soldiers fought battles with rebel fighters in
several districts.
The National Coalition for
Opposition and Revolutionary Forces urged the International community for an
urgent act in Homs.
The main stream opposition
body in Syria called also on fighters of the Free Syrian Army to "close
ranks in the face of Assad's recent brutal attacks on Homs".
"Syria is in danger of
disintegration as Assad's forces supported by Iran, Russia and Hezbollah militias
launch a fierce offensive on the city of Homs," it said in a statement.
"The National Coalition calls
on battalions of the Free Syrian Army to come to the aid of Homs with all means
possible.
"We also emphasize the need
for immediate effective and decisive actions by 'Friends of Syria' including
through establishing a no-fly zone and carrying out military strikes against
Assad's basic military bases."
Najati Tayyara, prominent
dissident figure set off alarm bells, saying people of the besieged city fear
the chemical weapons, according to Eqtsad newspapers.
"For the second day the regime jet fighters destroying
Homs, killing civilians under green light from the sleeping world,'' activists
said.
Analyst to Zaman Alwasl said
that regime wants fiercely getting back Homs ants neighborhoods under his
control, before Qusayr and Tal Kalakh, Homs now the main target of Assad's
forces which backed by Hezbollah militia.
Walid al-Bunni, Coalition
Member told Zaman Alwasl about Coalition intention to announce collective
resignations if the international community will not act to save Homs.
Another dissident, Dr. Kamal
al-Labwani, asked to establish a new political body includes a military
executive board along side with selected number of opposition figures, according
to Zaman Alwasl reporter.
Coalition Secretary General,
Mustafa Sabbagh, proposed urgent meetings represented by National Coalition and
chief of Staff with the influential leaders in the international community to
find concrete solution to the Syrian crisis otherwise the opposition and the
military supreme council will not attend on talks within Geneva 2.
Syria's armed forces
battered rebel-held parts of Homs city on Saturday with air raids, shelling and
a ground offensive that prompted the opposition to issue a desperate plea for
foreign military intervention.
"Warplanes carried out two consecutive raids against
areas under siege in Homs city, as well as carrying out heavy shelling against
the same districts," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based
Observatory described as "unprecedented" the all-out shelling
concentrated on the neighbourhoods of Khaldiyeh, Bab Hud, Hamidiyeh and Bustan
al-Diwan.
Regime forces were using
mortar shells, rockets, tank shells and heavy artillery in the assault, said
the monitoring group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground for
its reports.
The Syrian Human Rights
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said troops were trying to storm
Khaldiyeh and that fighting was underway around the Old City, two districts
that have been under army siege for around a year.
Homs, the third largest-city
in the country, was one of the first to join the revolt against The Assad
regime more than two years ago.
The 27-month-long
conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives, the Observatory announced Wednesday. Meanwhile,
Assad’s forces, backed by militants from the Lebanese Shiite movement
Hezbollah, have made creeping gains in recent months.
Editing by Mohamed Hamdan
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