[The following is an update on the situation in Homs from Syrian activist Omar Shakir.]
The humanitarian situation on the ground in Baba Amr until this moment is still a mix of rocket launchers, tanks. Mortar launchers hit the area from all sides. More than five hundred shells have come down on us since the morning, targetting homes, protest places, and mosques. Alanwar Mosque was shelled with more than ten shells, which led to the destruction of a large part of it; surrounding homes were also destroyed.
The humanitarian condition is difficult at the moment. There is no bread, no medication, and no food supplies. And as we mentioned in our last report, a field hospital was targetted, and we lost a number of our medical crew. There is no form of communication inside the area, and any moving thing is targeted by snipers surrounding the area.
Life is in a complete stand still. There is no escape or safe passage from the area, and there is no safe shelter inside the area from the rockets and shells. The number of martyrs has reached sixty based on the last statistic we recieved from Dr. Mohammad Almohammad (the head of the field hospital). The names of the martyrs are:
1) Mohammad Alatassi 2) Hatim Alabeed 3) Abdul Hamid Qurrah Hussain 5) Abdul Hamid Sabooh 6) Diyaa Alsheikh Fada 7) Adnan Khudr Salami Bade Alahmad 9) Mazeed Alhamad 10) Hameed Qaheet Alhamad 11) Abdul Kareem Mubarak 12) Mohammad Alawad 13)Adnan Alhazouri 14)Rami Alsaeed 15) Hassan Aluwair 16) Abdallah Almohammad 17)Ma`moon Alizoo 18)Abdul Kafi Alizo 19) Hamood Alaqlah 20) Child Hamza Hasoon 21) Child ra`ed Alharshah 22) Ghazi Alhaseebi 23) Child Jamal Masood 24) Child Manal Alali 25) Child Ayah Aldoomani 26) Mihammad Abdul rahman Alqadri 27) Child Ayman Alkhaled 28) Nahla Almuhesen 29) Fatima Alabdo 30) Suad Almohammad 31) Khudr Alhassan 32) Khaled Alsoos 33) Child Foad Alamer 34) Ridwan Alashlaq 35) Budran Abd Alaziz 36) Wasil Jum`ah 37) Marwa Nadaf 38) Ahd Alahmad 39) Muhammad Alrakaan 40) Rasha Omran 41) kamal Zein Aldeen 42) Abdul kareem qurrah khaled 43) Ziyad Hishiyeh 44) Ghurwan Almala 45) Abdullah Alsamra 46) Samer Alsayyid 47) Baby Abdul Rahman Orabi.
The remaining names of martyrs are unknown. And until this moment, there are eleven martyrs—three of them children—that we have not yet identified due to disfigurement and cutting of limbs. Thirty have been buried at night under shelling. We could not get the rest to the graveyard, and the number of martyrs increases every hour due to the continuous shelling.
There have been more than two hundred injured persons, mostly children, women and the elderly, since shelling has so far concentrated on houses. There are many injured who have permanent injuries now, including the loss of a limb or an eye (or both) and other bodily disfigurements. It is expected that some of the injured people will die because they are in a critical situation without any supplies to treat or disinfect them completely.