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| Red Cross Transport 35 Wounded Syrians from Qusayr to Lebanon |
| 2013-06-10 |
| [An Nahar] The Lebanese Red Thingy transported on Sunday around 35 Syrians, who were maimed in the Syrian town of Qusayr, state-run National News Agency reported. The NNA said that the transfer operations kicked off overnight Saturday. The maimed people were submitted to al-Menyeh Hospital in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , the news agency added. The maimed were evacuated as the regime seized the last remaining bully boy bastion in the Qusayr area of central Syria, near the Lebanese border. Red Thingy Operations Director George Kettaneh later told LBCI that 87 maimed people have been transported from Qusayr to Leb since Friday in cooperation with the Lebanese army. Dozens of maimed Syrian rebels and civilians have independently made their way across the frontier into Leb after the town of Qusayr, a former rebel stronghold, was taken last Wednesday by Syrian regime forces bolstered by fighters of Hizbullah, security sources said. Most of them arrived in Arsal, a Sunni majority town in eastern Leb which backs the rebellion in Syria, before they were transported to hospitals in Bekaa, while others landed in the village of al-Qasr in northeast Leb. Many of those who fled Qusayr have arrived across the border in extremely poor condition, a local municipality official in Arsal told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Their situation is very bad -- they arrived exhausted. They have nothing. Some came here on foot," said Ahmed al-Hojeiri. He said a Syrian civilian told him it "took four days to reach Arsal. He was in a state of complete shock. He tried to leave the city with his wife and two children when a shell fell. He lost his family." Hojeiri said some other Syrian refugees told him "they were eating leaves to survive on the road". Syrian authorities said on Saturday that government troops had taken control of the entire strategic region of Qusayr, where the U.N. Security Council has called for an "immediate" humanitarian access. |
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