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Problem:GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross renewed efforts on Monday to enter the Syrian town of Homs to evacuate civilians and wounded trapped by fighting but said it needed "unambiguous" agreement from both sides to make that happen. 
  
 Aid workers have been seeking access to the flashpoint city since government forces and opposition agreed to a humanitarian pause in the fighting last week. But the ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent team was forced to turn back last Thursday after hearing shooting as they entered the old city. 
  
 "We have now made a second demarche in fact today so that we can go back to relevant places in Homs, together with the Syrian Red Crescent," ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said. 
  
 "The agreement of the parties to a conflict is necessary to do the job. There are also real security concerns, booby traps and other things," he told a news conference in Geneva. 
  
 The ICRC says hundreds of civilians in the old city of Homs are trapped by fighting and wounded urgently need medical care. 
  
 "The will remains very strong to have access," Kellenberger said. "If we want to enter, it is obviously because we think there are huge humanitarian needs." 
  
 The independent aid agency also planned to deliver assistance to Aleppo, Latakia and Tartous this week, he said. 
  
 The only international aid agency working actively in Syria, it now deploys 30 expatriate workers in the country, Kellenberger said, noting that they travel without armed escort. 
  
 "The ICRC remains the only international humanitarian actor working in his very dangerous context. And that does not go without saying, I have to tell you," he said. 
  
 On Friday, a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer was shot dead on first aid duty in Deir al-Zor, an eastern province affected by heavy shelling and fierce fighting between security forces and rebels who have joined the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. 
  
 The United Nations, which said on Friday that 1.5 million Syrians now need assistance, has been largely shut out of Syria. 
  
 The world body is still trying to deploy U.N. aid workers under an agreement clinched with the government earlier this month - but now stalled - to launch a massive aid program. But the Syrian Red Crescent has distributed some U.N. supplies. 
  
 "Would a U.N. organization be ready for security reasons to work on the ground in this context? There is a big difference between giving responsibility to somebody else to carry out humanitarian work and being engaged yourself in humanitarian work," Kellenberger said. 
  
 ICRC officials have visited two prisons, in Damascus and Aleppo, since September to ensure that conditions of detention are decent and to prevent the use of torture. It has yet to secure access to prisoners held by militants, Kellenberger said. 
  
 (Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Mark Heinrich) ||||| The Dutch foreign minister on Monday said that the European Union will condemn Syria's downing of a Turkish jet, but will not support military intervention in the troubled country. 
  
 "What happened is to be considered very seriously [but] we do not go for any interventions," Uri Rosenthal said ||||| Syrian troops pounded the central city of Homs on Monday, activists and monitors said, amid warnings from the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) of an impending "massacre" there. 
  
 Main opposition bloc the Syrian National Council (SNC) issued a distress plea from residents, urging international help "before it is too late." 
  
 The Syrian Revolution General Authority reported shelling of Jorat Shiyah neighbourhood and "a violent bombardment of the Hamidiyeh district with rockets and artillery." 
  
 The FSA said "Arab and Islamic countries, friendly nations and concerned international organisations" bore responsibility for what happens. 
  
 "The brave city of Homs faces the strongest and most violent bombardment of rockets, artillery and tanks," its Supreme Military Council said in a statement. 
  
 "The regime is sending reinforcements estimated at 100 tanks in the direction of Homs... which clearly demonstrates its intention to commit the greatest massacre in history." 
  
 The FSA holds "the international community and its organisations responsible for what has happened, and what will happen in the brave city of Homs." 
  
 "To ignore these great people, you will pay a high price in the region for your positions, and you can be sure that this regime has been sentenced to death by its people and history." 
  
 The SNC in a statement called the 20-day siege of Homs "a campaign of genocide." 
  
 "We have called on the world to do something for our city and its trapped, unarmed civilians, yet there has been no response from anyone. 
  
 "We are being bombed mercilessly, indiscriminately and relentlessly with rocket launchers and helicopter gunships and mortars, tanks and heavy weapons." 
  
 "What is happening in Syria in general, and Homs in particular, is not a military or political conflict, but genocide," the SNC said. 
  
 It warned that a "war on defenceless people" would sow "mines of hatred" in the region, and urged the international community to "act immediately for the relief of Homs, before it is too late." 
  
 The appeal said Homs was experiencing shortages of food, water and medicine, and that "the Red Cross and Red Crescent are prevented from entering our neighbourhoods" because of the fighting. 
  
 "Our wounded are dying of injuries and illnesses could be treated easily if the medicines were available." 
  
 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported one person shot by sniper fire in Homs early on Monday, a day after at least 91 people were killed nationwide, among them 59 civilians. |||||
Solution:
The Syrian military has been hit with a raft of new defections: Six officers and 33 soldiers today quit the country for Turkey. Reports suggest they brought their families along, bringing the total number to 224 people. Accounts differ as to whether the defectors included an army general. They add to seven others, including three pilots, who have left the country since last week's defection of a pilot to Jordan, al-Arabiya reports. Meanwhile, Europe is grappling with the potential fallout after Syria shot down a Turkish plane, the New York Times notes. The EU wants Turkey "to be restrained in its response" to the incident, the EU's foreign policy head said; NATO meetings are set for tomorrow. Europe won't back military intervention, says the Dutch foreign minister. Back in Syria, the crisis in Homs is growing, with the opposition Free Syrian Army citing a regime plan "to commit the greatest massacre in history," according to al-Jazeera. The group says the regime is sending some 100 tanks to Homs, and it's time for the "international community" to take action. "We have called on the world to do something for our city and its trapped, unarmed civilians, yet there has been no response from anyone," the Syrian National Council said, calling the situation a "genocide." The Red Cross says it's struggling to get "unambiguous" approval from both sides as it steps up its attempt to help locals evacuate, Reuters reports.