Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Syria update 23.07.13

Rebels have seized the villages of Obeida and Hajireh southeast of Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have said.
The takeover comes amid a rebel attempt to cut off the army's main supply route linking Hama in central Syria to Aleppo in the north.
Meanwhile in Damascus, the loyalist air force staged two strikes against the eastern district of Jobar, home to sizeable pockets of resistance to the army, the London-based Observatory said.
(Al-jazeera)

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported violence in southern Damascus and said the entrance to the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp had been closed, a day after an army assault on rebel positions in the district.
More than 85 percent of Palestinians living in Yarmouk camp have been displaced due to the violence in the last two years, said Filippo Grandi, the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), on Monday.
“Out of 150,000 Palestinians living in Yarmouk, 130,000 have been displaced,” Grandi told reporters in a press conference in New York.
Amateur video released by the Syrian opposition purports to show that government foreces shelled the camp on Monday.
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 (Al-jazeera)

Egypt said on Monday it would cancel visa fees for Syrians, the latest effort to ease diplomatic tensions between the two Arab states after the army ousted President Mohamed Morsi this month.
Morsi, a member of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, had cut off diplomatic relations with Syria, led by President Bashar al-Assad, a follower of the Shia Alawite sect, last month at a rally packed with hardline Sunni Islamists calling for holy war in Syria.
[Reuters]

Turkey's deputy prime minister says his country supports Syria's territorial integrity and will not tolerate the creation of a "de facto" Syrian Kurdish entity on its frontiers.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Bulent Arinc would not spell out what Turkey would do prevent any such entity from coming about but said it would act carefully and in a cool-headed manner.
  (Al-jazeera)

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