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February 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The EU is preparing a new batch of sanctions against Syria, which France says will be the harshest yet. The move came as government forces launched a fresh assault on the city of Homs on Monday, with reports of 50 dead.
“Europe will again harden sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday, according to AFP. “We will try to increase this international pressure and there will come a time when the regime will have to realize that it is completely isolated and cannot continue.”
France has also proposed setting up a contact group on Syria to implement initiatives by the League of Arab States for ensuring a peaceful transfer of power in Syria and for stepping up international pressure on Damascus.
Meanwhile, numerous reports are coming in from Syrian rebels stating that government forces have launched another assault on Homs. Several other cities have been heavily shelled as well, with some 30 houses being hit in Zabadani.
At least 12 people were killed in Homs when a field hospital was hit, according to AP, who cited rebel sources.
At least 17 people have been killed in further intensive shelling of Baba Amro according to Al Arabiya.
Earlier, the country’s security forces said they had cleared all but two armed opposition strongholds around the capital, seizing vast caches of arms and explosives along the way.
Opposition fighters in Homs have also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols, with conflicting reports of casualties.
Ahead of the UN Security Council showdown this weekend, the violence in Syria seemed to reach fever pitch when activists reported a “massacre” in Homs which made international headlines. Pictures of the dead were greeted with horror around the world.
Initially the death toll was put at over 200, but that was later significantly downgraded. RT’s correspondent Sarah Firth confirmed from Syria that the initial death toll was indeed overestimated.
With no clear picture of exactly what is happening in Syria – most journalists reporting on the situation are outside the country – it is hard to know what Western allies at the UN base their assertions on.
Dissatisfied with the wording of the latest UN draft resolution, Russia and China vetoed the proposal, which they believed contained disturbing echoes of Libya and left the door open to possible foreign military intervention.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Intelligence chief Mikhail Fradkov are set to head to Damascus on Tuesday for talks with Syria’s President Assad. However, Lavrov said details of the meeting would remain confidential for the moment.
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