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The military intensified its assault on Daraa, the besieged city at the center of the country’s uprising. Defiant residents who have been pinned down in their homes for nearly a week struggled to find food, pass along information and bury their dead.
Syrian tanks shelled the city’s old quarter as reinforcements rolled in. Snipers nesting on rooftops and hiding in high mosque minarets keep people cowering in fear inside their homes. The death toll has soared to 545 nationwide from government forces firing on demonstrators.
