Senior Iraqi Shia scholar: UN responsible for ensuring safety of Shias in Syria
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – A senior Iraqi cleric said the United Nations is responsible for ensuring security and protecting the life of Shias in the Syrian towns of Kafariya and Al-Foua in Idlib province.
In a telephone conversation with UN Special Envoy for Iraq Yan Kubish, Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Saeed Hakim voiced concerns over the declining role of the UN in supporting the Shias in the two besieged towns, Ittijah website reported.
He noted that residents of Kafariya and Al-Foua are living in tragic humanitarian conditions.
Ayatollah Hakim went on to say that the UN should prevent the massacre of the followers of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) by terrorist groups in the region.
The two towns have been under siege by the al-Nusra Takfiri terrorist group for months.
Meanwhile new temporary truce has begun between pro-government and al-Qaeda offshoot opposition forces in four Syrian towns, a group that monitors the Syrian conflict has reported.
Sunday’s ceasefire began in the rebel-held towns of Zabadani and Madaya outside the capital, Damascus, and the Shia villages of Fouaa and Kefraya in the north-western province of Idlib near the Turkish border, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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