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A/C.3/70/L.47 15-19064 7/9 and any indiscriminate use of weapons in populated areas, including any indiscriminate use of weapons involving shelling and aerial bombardment, in particular the use of barrel bombs and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, and recalls in this regard the obligation to respect international humanitarian law in all circumstances; 20. Stresses the need to promote accountability for those responsible for the unlawful killing of civilians, and also stresses the importance of holding to account those responsible for all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law; 21. Condemns the reported forced displacement of the population in the Syrian Arab Republic and the alarming impact on the demography of the country, and calls upon all parties concerned to immediately cease all activities related to these actions, including any activities that may amount to crimes against humanity; 22. Deplores the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and urges the international community to assume its responsibility for providing urgent financial support to enable the host countries to respond to the growing humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees, while emphasizing the principle of burden-sharing; 23. Strongly condemns the intentional denial of humanitarian assistance to civilians, from whatever quarter, and in particular the denial of medical assistance and the withdrawal of water and sanitation services to civilian areas, which has recently worsened, stressing that the starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited under international law, noting especially the primary responsibility of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic in this regard, and deplores the deteriorating humanitarian situation; 24. Demands that the Syrian authorities and all other parties to the conflict do not hinder the full, immediate and safe access of the United Nations and humanitarian actors, including to besieged and hard-to-reach areas, consistent with Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014); 25. Strongly condemns practices including abduction, hostage-taking, incommunicado detention, torture, the brutal murder of innocent civilians and summary executions carried out by non-State armed groups and terrorist groups, most notably ISIL (Daesh) and Al-Nusrah Front, and underlines that such acts may amount to crimes against humanity; 26. Deplores the suffering and torture in detention centres throughout the Syrian Arab Republic, as depicted in the reports of the Commission of Inquiry and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as in the evidence presented by “Caesar” in January 2014, demands that the Syrian authorities immediately release all persons arbitrarily detained and ensure that detention conditions are consistent with international law, and calls upon the Syrian authorities to publish a list of all detention facilities; 27. Demands that the Syrian authorities, ISIL (Daesh), Al-Nusrah Front and all other groups halt the arbitrary detention of civilians and release all detained civilians