26th/May/2012

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The Daily Monitoring Report

The Field Situation
- During the Friday called "Our next rendezvous, Damascus," tens of thousands of demonstrators broke out in Syria, demanding the overthrow of the regime.(4) - Various demonstrations were organized in several areas of Idlib, including Binnish, Hass and Sarja, in addition to Jisr Ash Shoghour, Jabal Al-Zawiya and Ariha.(2) - According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, demonstrations brook out in Daraa's several districts, during which the Assad troops fired on demonstrators, several of whom were wounded in Inkhel.(4) - Hama and its countryside witnessed thousands of demonstrations.(4) - A number demonstrations were also staged in several neighborhoods of Damascus and in a many districts of Rif Dimashq.(4) - For the second consecutive week, Aleppo came on the scene of Friday demonstrations, tens of thousands of demonstrators broke out, especially in the neighborhoods of Salaheddine, Al-Sha'aar, Bustan Al-Qasr, as well as the towns of Manbej, Izaz and Al-Bab in the countryside.(1)(4) - Heavy security presence in several areas of the coastal city of Latakia, including the campus of Tishreen University, to prevent any demonstrations.
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Statistics

the presence of the UN observers in Homs's AlQosour district.(1)(4)

25th/May death toll: 33

- Three people were killed by a roadside bomb targeting a bus on the road to the Damascus International Airport.(1)(4) - Al-Assad's armored vehicles stormed the neighborhood of Barzeh amid gunfire and mass arrests,

with columns of smoke rising in the Damascus neighborhoods of Basatin Barzeh and Al-Qaboun near the Air Force intelligence premises, where explosions of missiles were heard.(1)(2)(4) - Al-Assad's forces publicly executed three people in Deir Al-Zour's Al-Qosour neighborhood, including two from the village of Al-Kharita.(2)(4) - Security forces forcibly broke up a sit-in staged by dozens of lawyers in the palace of justice in Aleppo, calling for the release of political prisoners. The forces detained a number of the protesters.(1)(2) - Spokesman for Union of the Revolution Coordination Committees said that Al-Atareb area is still exposed to continuous bombardment for the fifth successive day, killing at least six people, amid massive exodus from Aleppo's countryside.(1)

The Military Situation

- The military defector colonel Khalid Yousuf AlHamood, a commander in the Free Syrian Army (FSA), said some 203 elements from Al-Assad's forces, including three officers in the Damascus's countryside area of Al-Qatifa, have defected to the FSA. Clashes erupted between the defectors and the government forces, killing five defectors, while the rest managed to escape with their equipment to join the FSA.(1)(2)(4) - Al-Assad's forces continued shelling the Homs city of Al-Rastan, with shells crashing into the town at the rate of "one a minute" in an attempt to break into it.
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The Internal Situation

- The Israeli Haaretz says that senior Syrian officials, including Al-Assad's brother in law Asif Shawkat, chief of intelligence services, had been an exposed to an attempt on their lives through poisoning their food, but they all survived.(2)(6)

- The government forces bombed several neighborhoods in the city of Homs, which coincided with

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- Burhan Ghalyoun, who has recently resigned as head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), described what is going on in Al-Houla as a massacre, which is a type of genocide, which comes as part of a systematic policy to break the will of the Syrian people, adding that the world should not stand idly towards such a massacre.
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Sources:
- Martin Nesirky, spokesman of the UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon, says, "Clearly it's an important part of the UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan's mission to have direct talks with the Syrian authorities and the Syrian opposition," adding that "There was a fear that a third force or element in Syria!"(3) - More than 60 countries meet in Abu Dhabi in the largest meeting of the "Friends of Syria" under the UAE and Germany, in preparation for the economic reconstruction in Syria after the fall of Bashar AlAssad.(1)(4) - A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible.(3)

Activities of Civil Organizations

- The International Islamic Relief Organization signed agreements with a number of Lebanese hospitals within the activities of the Organization to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian refugees.(1)

Arab Political Stances

- The Lebanese opposition March 14 Alliance accused the Assad regime of trying to export his crisis to Lebanon. Former Lebanese prime minister Fouad AlSaniora said that Al-Assad's regime is working out a plan "to destabilize Lebanon and its regime, democracy and institutions in order to pounce on it.(2)

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Asharq Al-Awsat The London-based Al-Hayat The Kuwaiti Al-Watan Al-Quds Al-Arabi The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal The Syrian Al-Baath Reuters AFP The Qatari Al-Jazeera The Israeli Haaretz Washington Post wall Street Journal The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth The Guardian The Telegraph Russia Today

International Political Stances

- Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, says, "The size and sophistication of some recent bomb attacks in Syria suggest that "established terrorist groups" may have been behind them."(3)

More than 50 children were martyred in the district of Al-Houla in Homs city

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