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The regime is like a very old woman, a woman in her 70s, trying to put on makeup. United States pledges $12 million in humanitarian aid to Syria The U.S. State Department announced $12 million in humanitarian support from the United States to Syria by way of the United Nations and other organizations. According to a statement released by the State Department on Thursday, the UN and the International Red Cross will provide food, blankets, medical supplies and other necessities to the Syrian people. Of the $12 million in pledged aid, $3 million will go to the World Food Program, which estimates 1.4 million people have become ‘food insecure’ as a result of violence in Syria. The WFP plans to provide food to 100,000 people in Syria, the statement said. [US State Department] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that it was unable to enter the Homs district of Baba Amro on Friday, where it had hoped to bring in aid and evacuate the sick and wounded. “The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society (SARC) were not allowed to enter the Baba Amr district of Homs today,” ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said in a statement issued in Geneva. “It is unacceptable that people who have been in need of emergency assistance for weeks have still not received any help. We are staying in Homs tonight in the hope of entering Baba Amr in the very near future. In addition, many families have fled Baba Amr, and we will help them as soon as we possibly can.” Read more: ICRC says it’s not allowed to enter Baba Amro district People are, of course, tweeting about Syria, but interest seems to be more concentrated among activists or Middle East specialists. The wider social media audience hasn’t engaged in the way it did with Iran and Egypt. As we can see from these estimates below, the volume of Syria-related tweets (as a percentage of overall tweets) appears considerably lower than the volume related to the uprisings in Egypt and Iran. The estimates were constructed using multiple published Web sources reporting on number of tweets for the observed events as well as total Twitter traffic over time, including Twitter’s blog, Customer Insight Group, Mashable, the Sysomos blog, and a dataset acquired via Twapperkeeper. The estimates are not precise but should be roughly representative of the average Twitter traffic at the observed time period. Slate: Social revolution fatigue - why don’t we care about Syria? This is the worst war we’ve ever seen. And they’re getting away with it. Dramatic video reportedly from Homs, Syria shows what activists say is the bombing of a neighborhood on February 14, 2012. [YouTube]
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Crveni križ dogovara primirje u Siriji Crveni križ započeo je pregovore o primirju sa sirijskim vlastima i oporbenim borcima kako bi se mogla dostaviti humanitarna pomoć civilima Međunarodni odbor Crvenog križa (ICRC) pregovara o primirju sa sirijskim vlastima i oporbenim borcima kako bi dostavio pomoć civilima koji su najviše pogođeni sukobima, rekla je ta organizacija u ponedjeljak, javlja Hina. "ICRC ispituje nekoliko mogućnosti za dostavu žurno potrebne humanitarne pomoći. To uključuje prekid borbi u najpogođenijim područjima kako bi se olakšao brz pristup sirijskog arapskog Crvenog polumjeseca i ICRC-a ljudima kojima je pomoć potrebna", rekla je glasnogovornica ICRC-a Carla Haddad. Diplomatski izvori su Reutersu rekli da ICRC, jedina međunarodna agencija koja ima humanitarne djelatnike u Siriji, traži dvosatni prekid neprijateljstava u žarištima sukoba, uključujući Homs, gdje su uporišta pobunjenika već tjednima pod vatrom. Razgovori sa sirijskim vlastima i "svima uključenim u borbe" su povjerljivi, rekla je Haddad ne želeći navesti dodatne pojedinosti.