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Syria: halt in fighting essential to allow humanitarian relief

Footage available from the ICRC Video Newsroom. The ICRC believes that the humanitarian situation in Homs and other cities affected by fighting is deteriorating. "People are in a desperate situation - they need water, food, access to medical care, some are seriously injured, " says ICRC spokesperson , Carla Haddad.

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