Tuesday, February 28, 2012

#RedCross delivers aid to thousands in #Hama - Washington Times #Syria #SOSHoms

Red Cross delivers aid to thousands in Hama - Washington Times

clipped from article: DAMASCUS, Syria — Red Cross teams reached Hama for the first time in more than a month on Monday, delivering food and other goods to the central Syrian city battered by a military crackdown on the anti-government uprising.

Activist groups reported the death toll for 11 months of unrest has surpassed 8,000.

Hicham Hassan, an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman in Geneva, said a joint team of the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent brought an emergency delivery of food and other items for 12,000 people. [read more at link]

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