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Syria: Humanitarian aid truce extended
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
THE humanitarian truce in Aleppo was extended yesterday for another 24 hours even as insurgents fired on civilians trying to escape.
The Russian Defence Ministry announced the extension until Saturday evening as the Syrian army opened a ninth humanitarian corridor into the city.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said al-Qaida-affiliated Levant Conquest Front — formerly the Nusra Front — fighters were “refusing to leave the city” despite a government amnesty offer, and were preventing civilians from fleeing.
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