Not True If It said Israel and the USA are the oppressors, who is the oppressor is the Syrians and the World of Hell.

13 children among 50 civilians killed in Syria

It is one of the highest death tolls in one specific area since an internationally-brokered cease-fire went into effect last month.

Syrian troops using tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns pounded the area of Houla, a region made up of several towns and villages in the province of Homs, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Co-ordination Committees activist groups said.

Both groups said at least 50 people were killed.

Reports cannot be independently verified as the Syrian government has banned international media from the country.

The Observatory, which has a network of activists around the country, said the dead included 13 children.

It added that about 100 people were wounded.

An amateur video posted online by activists showed more than a dozen bodies lined up inside a room.

They included about 10 children who were covered with sheets that only showed their bloodied faces.

"Houla was subjected to a massacre," a man could be heard saying inside the room.

The Observatory said in one incident in Houla, a family of six was killed when their home received a direct hit.

Homs has been among the hardest hit provinces in a government crackdown since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March last year.

The UN said several weeks ago that 9,000 people have been killed in Syria in the past 15 months. Hundreds more have died since.





U.N. observers heading to site of Syria attack


GENEVA

A spokesman for the United Nations' envoy to Syria says international monitors are heading to a region where activists say at least 50 people were killed by government troops.

Ahmad Fawzi told The Associated Press in an email Saturday that the observers are traveling to Houla "as we speak."

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist group say troops used heavy weapons Friday to pound the area of Houla in the province of Homs.

The Syrian National Council opposition group says more than 110 people were killed by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

Fighting in Syria has continued despite the deployment of some 250 U.N. observers who have fanned out across the country to monitor a cease-fire brokered by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan.