Rescued Journalists Describe Conditions in Syrian City Video posted online by Syrian activists on Friday appeared to show in graphic detail the deadly impact of a shell fired into a crowd of protesters in Rastan, outside the city of Homs. As my colleagues Neil MacFarquhar and Alan Cowell report, the Syrian authorities on Friday went back on a promise to allow a Red Cross convoy with food and medical supplies into Baba Amr, a rebellious neighborhood in the city of Homs where thousands of residents have endured weeks of heavy bombardment. An activist who fled Baba Amr claimed on Facebook that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were rounding up men and boys and conducting summary executions, but the escape of the last foreign journalists from the neighborhood this week, with a team of opposition video bloggers, made it impossible to confirm those reports. Two of the four European journalists who were smuggled out of Baba Amr by Syrian activists before the retreat of rebel fighters spoke about the plight of the thousands of civilians stranded in the neighborhood in interviews on Friday. Javier Espinosa, a reporter for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo who reached Lebanon on Wednesday, described his harrowing escape on a radio interview with the BBC, but insisted that the focus should remain on the "20,000 mainly women and old people, civilians trapped in a very small enclave." Mr. Espinosa, who was staying in the same building as the American reporter Marie Colvin and the French photographer Rémi Ochlik when they were killed in a rocket attack, said that, despite the danger, he and his colleagues had "a duty" to bear witness to the violent crackdown on dissent in Syria. "I think Marie would agree with me that we had to keep reporting because the suffering there was huge, and is huge," he said. This suffering has to be reported. Mr. Espinosa said that the residents of Baba Amr had endured weeks of "constant shelling the whole day until night. It was very systematic, they would start shelling at 6 o'clock in the morning, they finished at 6 o'clock p.m. He added that "very basic things," like food and water, were "running out completely." Hala Jaber, a correspondent for London's Sunday Times, reported on Twitter that the bodies of Ms. Colvin and Mr. Ochlik were being driven from Homs to Damascus by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Friday. Adding a note of the surreal, the Syrian authorities claimed on Thursday that they had also discovered the body of Mr. Espinosa in Baba Amr, two days after he arrived safely in Lebanon. In a wry note posted on Twitter, Mr. Espinosa joked that if the Syrians send his body back to Spain, he hoped they would also return his computer and some money he was forced to leave behind. Paul Conroy, a photographer who was on assignment with Ms. Colvin, and was wounded in the attack that killed her, escaped the city on Tuesday and spoke Britain's Sky News from a hospital bed on Friday. Mr. Conroy, an experienced war photographer and former soldier, said: "I've worked in many war zones, I've never seen or been in shelling like this. It was a systematic - I'm an ex-artillery gunner so I can kind of follow the patterns - they are systematically moving through neighborhoods with munitions that are used for battlefields. "It's unfathomable," he added. Asked if the shelling was indiscriminate, Mr. Conroy said: "Absolutely indiscriminate - there are no targets in Baba Amr. The Free Syrian Army are there purely to bring in bread and to stop the ground assault, which, over the last week the intensity of the bombardment increased daily," adding, "it's an attempt at massacre." He added: "Any talking now is too late. The time for talking is actually over. Now, the massacre and the killing is at full tilt. And, unfortunately, they were coming up to me saying, "Where is the help?" People brought me half a baby in and said "Save my baby. Where's the help? And I've no answer. I don't know how we can stand by and watch this. It's not a war, it's a massacre. The last of the foreign journalists to be smuggled out of Baba Amr by activists, William Daniels and Edith Bouvier, who was also gravely wounded in the attack that killed her colleagues, were flown home to France on Friday. Ms. Bouvier's emotional reunion with family and friends on an airport runway was broadcast live on French television.