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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Air Strikes Hit near Damascus during Aid Distribution
2014-05-25
[An Nahar] Syria's air force on Saturday struck a besieged, rebel-held town near Damascus where U.N. and Red Islamic Thingy workers distributed aid, a monitoring group and activists said.

"Two air strikes hit Douma during a visit of a delegation of the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to the town's outskirts," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Activists said aid distribution went ahead even though one of the strikes hit an area near a warehouse being used to store relief supplies.

Douma is in the Eastern Ghouta area of Damascus province, where local residents suffer food and medical shortages.

Activist Hassan Takieddin said 400 aid parcels were distributed "to the whole of Eastern Ghouta. That is very little."

The U.N.'s visit to the town was the first since March, he said.

A U.N. Security Council resolution was passed in February demanding aid access to people in need across Syria.

Rights groups and the United Nations have both said aid was still not reaching millions of people in need, despite the resolution.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
state news agency SANA said four people were killed and nine maimed in a rebel kaboom in eastern Damascus.

Thirty kilograms (65 pounds) of explosives were used in the blast, a police source told SANA.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
the army and rebels were holding ceasefire talks in Qadam and Assali, both in southern Damascus, and the Waar district of the central city of Homs, the Observatory said.

In Aleppo, troops evacuated maimed comrades and detainees from the central prison that had been under rebel siege for more than a year, said the Observatory.

The army, backed by pro-regime faceless myrmidons and Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
, broke the rebels' siege of the prison on Thursday.

Elsewhere, the Observatory said the corpse count from a Thursday evening attack by rebels on an election rally in Daraa for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
had risen to 37.

"Among them were 19 civilians, including four children, 12 members of the popular defense committees (pro-regime militia) and six soldiers," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Activists on Saturday reported 13 barrel bomb strikes by regime aircraft on Nawa, a rebel bastion in Daraa province of southern Syria.
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