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A/HRC/22/59 44 GE.13-10627 Aleppo governorate documented accounts of medicine delivery being refused and denial of medical care. Furthermore, it documented Government forces attacking hospitals and field clinics and preventing physical access to hospitals by use of snipers. 10. The attacks on hospitals, medical units and personnel do not capture the compounded socio-economic cost of violence – health care staff leaving their posts, hospitals running out of supplies and vaccination campaign ceasing. These effects substantially limit access to health care for entire communities including the most vulnerable amongst the population, such as women, childrenn and the elderly. 11. On 7 January 2013, the commission received information from the Government stating that factories in the city of Aleppo had been deliberately looted or destroyed, in an attempt to destroy the Syrian industrial sector. The Government provided information on attacks by armed groups on warehouses of medical supplies and that medicines had been destroyed or sold overseas. The Government also provided information on destruction of agricultural crops and theft of grain from warehouses.o 12. The sixth meeting of the Syrian Humanitarian Forum, held on 9 November, concluded that the deepening humanitarian situation in the country coupled with the loss of life and increasing displacement was a matter of grave concern to the international community and appealed for urgent funds for aid operations. By 31 December, the two humanitarian assistance appeals for refugees in neighbouring countries and the internally displaced persons and others in need inside the Syrian Arab Republic were only 69% and 55% funded respectively.p During December, the international community launched two appeals for four million people, to provide life-saving emergency assistance inside Syria and to refugees in neighbouring countries, UN humanitarian agencies and partners seek US$1.5 billion for interventions until 30 June.q In response to the Syrian refugee crisis, in December, the United Nations system declared a level 3 Emergency situation in the region. n The word children is used throughout this report to refer to people who have not yet attained their 18th birthday. o NV from the Syrian Arab Republic in Geneva, 7 January 2013. p OCHA, Syria Humanitarian Bulletin No. 16, 7 January 2013. q Syrian Assistance Response Plan and Syria Regional Response Plan (Jan-June 2013), launched 19 December 2012