A/RES/70/234 Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic 15. Also strongly condemns all attacks against the Syrian moderate opposition, and calls for their immediate cessation, given that such attacks benefit so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) and other terrorist groups, such as Al-Nusrah Front, and contribute to a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation; 16. Demands that all foreign terrorist fighters, including those who are fighting in support of the Syrian authorities, immediately withdraw from the Syrian Arab Republic; 17. Also demands that all parties immediately put an end to all violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, recalls, in particular, the obligation under international humanitarian law to distinguish between civilians and combatants and the prohibition against indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and all attacks against civilians and civilian objects, further demands that all parties to the conflict take all appropriate steps to protect civilians, in compliance with international law, including by desisting from attacks directed against civilian objects, such as medical centres, schools and water stations, immediately demilitarize such facilities, avoid establishing military positions in populated areas and enable the evacuation of the wounded and all civilians who wish to leave besieged areas, and recalls in this regard that the Syrian authorities bear primary responsibility for protecting its population; 18. Condemns in the strongest terms the increasing number of massacres and other mass casualty incidents, including those which may constitute a war crime, taking place in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the outrageous attack in Douma by the Syrian regime that struck a busy marketplace on 16 August 2015, when at least 111 civilians were killed, including women and children, and requests the Commission of Inquiry to continue to investigate all such acts; 19. Recalls the statements made by the Special Envoy of the SecretaryGeneral for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, indicating that the overwhelming majority of the civilian casualties in the Syrian Arab Republic have been caused by the indiscriminate use of aerial bombardments, demands in this regard that the Syrian authorities immediately cease any attacks on civilians, any disproportionate attacks 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 Republic, and urges the international providing urgent financial support to growing humanitarian needs of Syrian burden-sharing; 6/9 humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab community to assume its responsibility for enable the host countries to respond to the refugees, while emphasizing the principle of