A/RES/73/182 Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic 36. Calls upon all members of the international community, including all donors, to fulfil their previous pledges and continue to provide much -needed support to the United Nations, its specialized agencies and other humani tarian actors to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions of Syrians displaced both internally and in host countries and communities; 37. Welcomes the efforts of those countries outside the region that have put in place measures and policies to assist and host Syrian refugees, encourages them to do more, and also encourages other States outside the region to consider implementing similar measures and policies, with a view to providing Syrian refugees with protection and humanitarian assistance; 38. 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 warfare 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; 39. Demands that the Syrian authorities and all other parties to the conflict ensure the full, immediate, unimpeded and sustained 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), 2191 (2014), 2254 (2015), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017) and 2401 (2018); 40. Strongly condemns practices, including abduction, hostage-taking, arbitrary and incommunicado detention, torture, the murder of innocent civilians and summary executions, carried out by non-State armed groups and terrorist groups so designated by the Security Council, most notably so -called ISIL (also known as Da’esh) and Nusrah Front (also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham), and underlines that such acts may amount to crimes against humanity; 41. 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, and in the reports of widespread killing of detainees in Syrian military intelligence facilities; 42. Strongly condemns the reported killing of detainees in Syrian military intelligence facilities, in particular in the Mazzah airport detention facility, the Harasta Air Force Intelligence Branch and Military Security Branches 215, 227, 235, 248 and 291, and the reported killing of detainees in Adra prison and at military hospitals, including Mazzah, Tishrin and Harasta, and expresses deep concern at reports that the regime used a crematorium to conceal a mass killing of prisoners at the Saydnaya penitentiary complex; 43. Calls for the appropriate international monitoring bodies to be granted access to detainees in government prisons and detention centres, including all military facilities referred to in the reports of the Commission of Inquiry; 44. Demands that all parties take all appropriate steps to protect civilians and persons hors de combat, including members of ethnic, religi ous and confessional communities, and stresses that, in this regard, the primary responsibility to protect the population of the Syrian Arab Republic lies with the Syrian authorities; 45. Strongly condemns the damage and destruction of the cultural heritage of the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular that of Palmyra and Aleppo, and the organized looting and trafficking of Syrian cultural property, as outlined by the Security Council 12/13 18-22278