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'Tanks are on the streets of Homs': Syrians at breaking point as ammunition, food and hospital supplies run desperately low

By Daily Mail UK

Desperate Syrians are reaching breaking point as government troops look set to storm rebel-held parts of Homs.
As hospitals struggle to cope with hordes of injured and bloody citizens, opposition fighters are locked in a stand-off with president Bashar Assad's army.
The Free Syrian Army is fighting to protect neighbourhoods including Bab Amr, which has been shelled non-stop for four days, with at least 100 civilians killed there in the past two.



Wounded people: A severely injured man apparently lying in a hospital in shell-battered Homs, from amateur video made available by Shaam News Network

David Cameron yesterday gave the green light to a three point plan to force Syrian dictator Assad to quit, at a meeting of the National Security Council.

As international outrage at the president's actions intensified, Mr Cameron approved plans to train spin-doctors to help opposition leaders win the support of Syrian people into the future.

But on the ground, the rebels are running low on ammunition while food and hospital supplies are sparse.

Homs is largely cut off from the outside world, and its people are finding it increasingly difficult to function.


Tragic sight: A YouTube video shows mourners carrying the body of Mazhar Tayyara, a citizen journalist known as 'Omar the Syrian', after he was killed by shrapnel while helping the wounded

NGOs including the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claim the Syrian army is mounting a full-on attempt to reclaim rebel-held enclaves.
Rockets and mortar rounds continued to be fired, according to activists, a day after Russia said Assad wants peace.

Tanks entered the Inshaat neighbourhood and moved closer to Bab Amr district, which has been the target of the heaviest barrages by loyalist troops, activists said.

'Tanks are now at Qubab mosque and soldiers have entered Hikmeh hospital in Inshaat. They also moved closer to Bab Amro and shelling is being heard on Karm al-Zeitoun and al-Bayada,' activist Mohammad al-Hassan said by satellite phone from Homs.

'Communications have been cut in many parts of Homs and it is difficult to put together an overall picture. But tanks are in main thoroughfares in the city and appear poised to push deep into residential areas,' he added.



Lacking resources: Medical staff help the injured at a hospital in the Bab Amr neighbourhood of Homs, which has been bombed by government troops for four days solid

Western and Arab states acted to further isolate Assad following the onslaught on the city, one of the bloodiest of the 11-month uprising.

The official state news agency said 'armed terrorist groups' attacked police roadblocks in Homs and fired mortar bombs at the city, with three falling on the Homs oil refinery, one of two in the country. It gave no details of any damage.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said both countries wanted to revive a monitoring effort by the Arab League, whose plan to resolve Syria's crisis was vetoed by Moscow and Beijing in the U.N. Security Council.

Lavrov - a major arms supplier to Syria with deep political ties to Damascus and a naval facility on its coast - told Assad peace was in Russia's interests.


Heart-breaking: An amateur video shows a doctor treating a wounded man at a hospital in Homs

But there was no indication from Lavrov's comments that the issue of Assad eventually giving up power - a central element of the Arab proposal that failed in the U.N. - had been raised.

Tank bombardment also was reported on Zabadani, a town of 20,000 people 30km (19 miles) northwest of Damascus. The town sits in the foothills of mountains separating Syria from Lebanon, where resistance to Assad's rule has been among the fiercest.

At least ten have been killed in Zabadani in the past two days, activists said.

Around 150 tanks and thousands of troops launched an offensive on Zabadani last week following a withdrawal by Assad's forces last month after a truce reached by Assad's brother-in-law and town officials.

Opposition leaders say the bloodshed means it is too late for Assad to offer compromises and it is time to dismantle the 50-year-old police state dominated by members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam in the majority Sunni Muslim country.

'It is impossible for Assad to govern after bombarding his own cities and towns. He is escalating the use of his military might either to sink Syria into chaos or to improve his negotiating position,' said opposition leader-in-exile Kamal al-Labwani.

The bombardment has killed mainly civilians. The fighters in Homs and other cities have been slipping away but they will be back.'

Mr Labwani said Moscow will either mediate a transitional military council to replace Assad or help him set up a coastal enclave for his sect.

The offensive on Homs and Zabadni followed attacks to regain suburbs of Damascus last week that had fallen under opposition control after months of mass demonstrations against Assad's rule and repeated military incursions that failed to put them down.

Amer Faqih, an activist in Damascus, said: 'We're under occupation. The army has been looting shops and houses and stealing even mattresses. They have cut electricity and telephones for 10 days now, Water and fuel are scarce. Anyone who ventures in the street after 6 p.m. risks being shot on the spot.'

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