Syrian Violence Continues as U.N. Team Prepares Arrival BEIRUT, Lebanon - The first group of six United Nations cease-fire monitors was due to arrive in Syria on Sunday even as activists described violence erupting in flash points like Homs and an area near the Turkish border. The six, to be followed immediately by another 25-30 military observers drawn from United Nations missions in the region, will be ready to begin patrols as early as Monday depending on the cooperation of the Syrian government, said Ahmad Fawzi, spokesman for Kofi Annan, the main architect of the truce under United Nations auspices. That advance team, small for a country the size of Syria, is due to grow to 250 after further negotiations with Damascus. Reports from around Syria suggested that the cease-fire that went into effect on Thursday was holding in places, with certain notable exceptions. A video posted online said to have been shot Sunday in the central Khaldiya neighborhood of Homs showed a building going up in flames soon after a shell exploded on it in a cloud of fire and smoke. The whizz of shells roaring overhead could be heard every few minutes, with at least one death reported by activist groups. In the north, government forces were randomly shelling the village of Khirbet Jouz, aiming at a group of fighters from the Free Syrian Army there, said a statement for the Local Coordination Committee, an activist group. The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to send an advance team of up to 30 military observers to begin monitoring the tenuous cease-fire. It was the first time since the Syrian uprising began 13 months ago that the Security Council put its full weight behind a concrete proposal to stop the violence, with Russia and China joining the rest of the 15-member Council to authorize the observer mission. The resolution put new pressure on Syria to take its troops off the streets and to open a dialogue with the opposition, both crucial aspects of the six-point plan aimed at ending more than a year of violence that has left at least 9,000 people dead by the United Nations" count. The resolution was delayed for a day by wrangling with Russia over its demand that the opposition also be held responsible, and changes in the wording reflected that. Still, most Security Council members put the onus for sticking to the cease-fire on the government of President Bashar al-Assad. "We're under no illusions," Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said Saturday. Just this morning, Syrian forces resumed their brutal shelling of Homs and opened fire on mourners in Aleppo, raising renewed doubts about the sincerity of the regime's commitment to a cease-fire. Asked if she thought that was a violation of the cease-fire she said, "Absolutely."