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2.34pm GMT ICRC in Homs The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC) sends this update: On Saturday 3rd November an ICRC team together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent entered the old city of Homs to deliver assistance.

The work of the ICRC in both World Wars was recognized by the Nobel Prize for Peace in both 1917 and 1944.

"The limits on our action are more on the side of logistics than access," said Anna Schaaf, spokeswoman for the ICRC in Nairobi.

#BabAmr #Syria — ICRC in English (@icrc_english) February 24 , 2012A short time later, Javier Espinosa, a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo who is in Baba Amr, reported on Twitter that the first of the wounded had been evacuated.

Messages are forwarded to the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, from where they are sent on to the relevant country and distributed by local workers.

#BabAmr #Homs #Syria — ICRC in English (@icrc_english) February 24 , 2012Earlier on Friday, Reuters reported that French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said that the governor of Homs was working with the I.C.R.C. to evacuate foreign journalists who were wounded on Wednesday in an attack on Baba Amr that killed two of their colleagues, Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik.

"We... call on the conflict parties to spare civilians and permit them to be withdrawn to safety and to allow the wounded to be evacuated and dead bodies to be recovered," Magne Barth, new head of the ICRC delegation in Syria, said in a statement issued in Geneva.

This is not the first time that there has been intercommunal violence in Duékoué." Dominique Liengme, the head of the ICRC delegation in the country, said in a statement: "This incident is particularly shocking in its scope and brutality".

The ICRC, based in Geneva, intervenes in countries during times of conflict and crisis, working closely with local offices during that time.

"The chronic overcrowding and the unhygienic conditions in prisons can bring on new cases of the disease," Christoph Vogt, head of the ICRC delegation in Madagascar had said in October.

The head of the ICRC delegation in the country, Dominique Liengme, said in a statement: "This incident is particularly shocking in its size and brutality.