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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Humanitarian Aid Piles Up in Beirut
2006-07-30
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south. The help has been slowed by the difficult logistics of arranging safe passage during Israeli airstrikes, which have blasted close to the few truck convoys that have made the dangerous drive so far.

No aid trucks have been hit, but artillery shells fell within hundreds of yards of convoys from the international Red Thingy Cross, United Nations and other agencies this week, officials said. Doctors Without Borders was using taxis to transport supplies because ambulances had been targeted, spokesman Sergio Cecchini said Saturday.
Wonder why the IDF targets ambulances? Anyone there have any ideas? Any institutional memories? Any sense of history?
Israel has promised safe passage for aid, but it's done on a convoy-by-convoy basis and often requires 72-hour notice, officials said. Israel said it brought a U.N. observer into an Israeli military control room Saturday to help oversee the transfer of aid.

Meanwhile, Israeli missiles struck near the main Lebanese border crossing into Syria late Saturday, forcing its closure for the first time in the 18-day conflict. The passage has been a gateway for aid entering the country by land.
And for guns and ammo for the Hezbies, but the WaPo reporter neglects to mention that. Must have slipped her mind with the deadline approaching.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  excellent! batteries recharged... :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2006-07-30 12:12  

#5  Hey Frank glad to see you're Back!

How was the binge fishing trip?

»:-)
Posted by: Al Gore   2006-07-30 11:58  

#4  a Paleo tactic learned by Hezb
Posted by: Frank G   2006-07-30 11:11  

#3  Wonder why the IDF targets ambulances? Anyone there have any ideas?

Yep, Hisbollah uses them to move men, arms and ammo feeling it's safe.
After all "Nobody" hits an Ambulance, (Except the Hisbollah,Of course, and their reasons are "Pure")
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-07-30 10:48  

#2  Well the lebanase know how to riot at least. They just stormed the UN HQ in Beirut. Still laughing my ass off.
Posted by: Charles   2006-07-30 05:42  

#1  Can you say "airdrop"? I didn't think so. Forgotten technology, perhaps.
Posted by: gorb   2006-07-30 03:37  

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