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Topic: Syrian humanitarian crisis

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February 19, 2013
12:45 am

A sign warns of mines near the Syrian border with Israel in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: Flash90)

IDF said set to build field hospital on Syrian border

After 7 wounded Syrians allowed in on Saturday, military is preparing for onrush of refugees, and wants to treat the injured on Golan Heights frontier rather than inside Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 17, 2013
5:55 pm

Syrian rebels stand in the rubble of buildings damaged by government airstrikes, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

UN refugee guidelines would complicate return of Syrian asylum-seekers

The arrival in Israel of seven wounded Syrians on Saturday raises possibility that more could come in the future

By Matti Friedman

February 17, 2013
5:25 pm

Shimon Peres (right) and Ben Cardin at a meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday (photo credit: Flash90)

Anticipating visit, Peres says Obama will handle Iran

President tells American policymakers White House has shown understanding and support for Israel’s security needs

By Aaron Kalman

February 17, 2013
10:09 am

Syrian refugees receive ongoing treatment in Israeli hospital for first time

They asked for our help and we gave it, says top Defense Ministry official of seven wounded Syrian nationals evacuated by IDF troops to Ziv Hospital in Safed

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

February 16, 2013
5:09 pm

Syrian refugees treated in Israeli hospital for first time

As violence spills over to Golan Heights, seven wounded Syrian nationals evacuated by IDF troops to Ziv Hospital in Safed

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

February 9, 2013
11:36 am

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, stands next to Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Dawoud Rajha, right, and Chief of Staff Gen. Fahed al-Jasem el-Freij, left, during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, in Damascus, Syria, last year (photo credit: AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian president reshuffles economic cabinet posts

Amid power shortages and other ravages, Assad names new oil, finance, social affairs ministers; security posts unchanged

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue

February 2, 2013
6:31 pm

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters flashing the victory sign as they hold a banner during a demonstration in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syrian rebels press on toward Aleppo airport

As insurgents capture neighborhood after neighborhood, Biden prepares to meet with Lavrov and the UN’s Syria envoy

By Barbara Surk

January 30, 2013
12:47 pm

Syrian refugees in Marj , Lebanon, earlier this month. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla, File)

UN head appeals for $1.5 billion to aid fleeing Syrians

Nearly 60 nations gather in Kuwait to discuss helping displaced Syrians, call for end to violence

January 29, 2013
6:25 pm

A pair of what activists say are Syrian army tanks sit in a street in the Daraya neighborhood of Damascus on January 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)

US to send additional $155 million in aid to Syria

Barack Obama says in video address that funding ‘reflects the commitment of the American people’

January 27, 2013
4:55 pm

Valerie Amos at the World Economic Forum in Davos, last week (photo credit: CC-BY-SA World Economic Forum/Flickr)

UN humanitarian chief in Damascus for talks

Valerie Amos meets with government officials, UN workers in attempt to bring aid to war-ridden Syria

January 26, 2013
2:51 pm

Syrian refugees carry their belongings near the Syrian border in Jordan, January 9, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

UK pledges further aid for Syrian refugees

From the web The Independent: Of the $33 million, half will be allocated to humanitarian efforts in Jordan, which claims to harbor 300,000 refugees, while the rest will go to aid organizations in Syria

January 26, 2013
12:39 am

Men make bread at a bakery in the old city of Aleppo (photo credit: Andoni Lubaki/AP)

US sending $10 million to relieve Syrian food crisis

Money is ‘primarily directed at getting flour into the north of Syria,’ says State Department

January 25, 2013
11:41 pm

In this image captured from a video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings due to heavy shelling in Daraa, Syria, Thursday (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

140 killed in Syria fighting, say activists

Regime forces subject central province to rocket, artillery fire as refugees stream into Jordan in record numbers