A/HRC/25/65 persons on the basis of their origin as indicated on their identity cards. Residents describe the “humanitarian disaster” in Daraya, with no food, fuel or medicine allowed inside. Malnourishment has spread, drastically affecting children. (c) Yarmouk camp 139. 20,000 people remain besieged in Yarmouk Palestinian Camp, with no food and medical supplies. People have nothing to eat, having exhausted all their supplies and resorted to eating plant leaves, selling their belongings and looting abandoned houses. In January 2014, reports of deaths from starvation were received. With hospitals and medical clinics damaged by shelling, there is a complete lack of health care. No medical supply shipments have been allowed into Yarmouk to date. On 15 January, an UNRWA convoy was authorized to enter Yarmouk only from the northern gate, where there were ongoing hostilities. The UNRWA convoy could not proceed because of insecurity. Since then, humanitarian convoys have been able to access the area but have been prevented from delivering food supplies by Government security forces inside the camp. (d) Homs (Old City) 140. A siege was imposed on the Old City of Homs in February 2012. Checkpoints and barricades, and a 1 km concrete wall erected next to the Political Security Branch contour the Old City, blocking all access. Humanitarian aid was last allowed to enter in October 2012. The 4,000 people remaining inside were faced with insufficient water and electricity, and a lack of food and medical supplies. Periodic shelling caused injuries that remain untreated and result in high mortality rates. Government snipers, positioned at all access points, limited movement and indiscriminately targeted persons. 2. Non-State armed groups (a) Aleppo (i) Nubul and Zahra 141. Non-State armed groups have encircled Nubul and Zahra, besieging 45,000 people. The siege is imposed by groups affiliated to the Islamic Front, Jaish Al Mujahedeen, Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Syrian Revolutionary Front by checkpoints erected around the area and by cutting off their electrical and water supply lines. These groups have denied access to humanitarian convoys, in violation of their obligations under international humanitarian law. This has led to dire humanitarian conditions, with residents digging wells for water and suffering illnesses due to the lack of sanitation. After a helicopter with humanitarian aid and school supplies was attacked in June 2013, government forces ceased the delivery of basic necessities. The sole remaining health-care clinic in Nubul and Zahra has few supplies, using primitive means to treat persons with chronic illnesses and those wounded in the indiscriminate shelling of the towns. 142 Armed groups in the region have periodically extended the siege to include Afrin, as it provides a supply line to Nubul and Zahra. As the conflict between the YPG and armed groups intensified in Al-Hasakah on 17 July, the siege on Afrin was re-imposed. As at January 2014, ISIS was preventing humanitarian access to Afrin. (ii) Hama 143. Al-Ghab Valley, an agricultural area, contains a cluster of Alawite villages surrounded by a predominantly Sunni population. Government military positions deployed within the Alawite villages shell the surrounding area. Non-State armed groups have retaliated by deliberately targeting farmers working the fields. Repeated killings and 21