国际红十字主席彼得·毛雷尔在大马士革会见叙利亚总统阿萨德，讨论国际红十字和叙利亚红新月为叙利亚冲突受害者提供援助的办法。毛雷尔在接受BBC阿拉伯语广播的采访时解释了他两天访问的目的。

"The crisis is creating new needs and I have come now to Syria also to strengthen our cooperation with the Sarc, or the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to expand our operations and also to follow up on the mandate of ICRC to assist and protect the people in conflict." Earlier, the United Nations refugee agency said more than 100,000 Syrians fled the country last month.

“这场危机使人们有了新的需要，我这次来叙利亚也是为了加强与红新月的合作，来扩大我们的覆盖面，同时跟进红十字的命令，帮助和保护身处冲突中的人。”早些时候，联合国难民机构称上月有10万叙利亚人逃离该国。

Police in Israel have launched an investigation after an arson attack on a Christian monastery on occupied Palestinian territory west of Jerusalem. Vandals also sprayed the Trappist monastery at Latrun with anti-Christian graffiti. Police are looking into whether the attack was carried out by extremist Jewish settlers in retaliation for the eviction of around 300 settlers north of Jerusalem earlier this week. The outpost had become a rallying cry for hardline groups oppose to any withdrawal from the occupied West Bank.