Assad's forces have imposed more restrictions on movement and transportation of the people in the embattled city of Homs.

 The latest procedures were demanding birth certificate which assured that the person is originally from Homs neighborhoods and establishing special rooms to check women, local source said to Zaman Alwasl.

Passing through the Assad regime blockades is obligatory for residents of the rebel-held areas.

Activists reported many abuses against women by 'Al-Mazra'a' checkpoint, one of the most humiliating blockades in Homs, which considered as the main gate to inter Al-Waer neighborhood.

The Assad regime made special checkpoints for the women of al-Waer neighborhood; the inspecting procedures included their bags, mobiles and clothes.

'' Our sisters, who wear hijab, are obliged in the holly month to take off their clothes in closed rooms,'' activist told Zaman Alwasl

''It's big misery now, we are surrounded by imminent risks where the Assad's militia, National Defense Army is crowded at the frontiers of al-Waer neighborhood,'' the source said.

Moreover, the besieged neighborhood of the city is suffering from lack of food and medicine.

The United Nations revealed in a statement issued in Geneva that Assad's authorities are blocking access to the old city of Homs, where trapped civilians are in dire need of food and medical supplies, the Red Cross said last week, warning of possible "tragic" consequences.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed that it was negotiating a humanitarian pause to be able to enter Homs, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been conducting a heavy offensive against rebels, with air and artillery strikes.

"We have been trying to bring medical supplies and other aid to the old city of Homs," Magne Barth, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria, said.

"Despite lengthy negotiations with both sides, and three trips back and forth between Damascus and Homs, we have still not received the go-ahead from the Syrian authorities," he said.

Homs, in central Syria, is the epicenter of the armed insurgency that grew from popular street protests against more than four decades of Assad family rule. Some 2,000 people are now believed to be trapped there, aid agencies say.

Reaching tens of thousands of people in areas encircled by government forces or armed opposition groups remains one of the toughest challenges the ICRC faces in Syria, the agency said.

Under international humanitarian law, warring parties are obliged to allow rapid safe passage of humanitarian relief for civilians.

"They must also allow civilians in areas besieged by fighting to leave for safer areas, should they wish to do so. Regrettably, these obligations are not always fulfilled," the agency said.