Food running out in south Lebanon, aid blocked

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http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L11425907

TYRE, Lebanon, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Humanitarian agencies sought ways to get aid to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Friday and the mayor of Tyre said the port city could run out of food in two days.

United Nations and other convoys have been unable to deliver supplies to the region since an Israeli air strike destroyed the last bridge across the Litani river on Monday.

"We have not received any aid since the last route was cut off. We have enough food supplies for no more than two days," Tyre's mayor, Abdel-Mohsen al Husseini, told a news conference.

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The ICRC said it had not been able to reach villages where it had hoped to take several hundred people, including wounded, to safety in the north. "Obviously we will continue to try to reach and supply these villages and evacuate the wounded and sick," said spokeswoman Antonella Notari.

[leftchick]

1. just look at this insanity

war crimes all day every day for a month!



The driver of a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross discusses how to extract his vehicle from the river with colleagues on the riverbank, after getting stuck whilst trying to drive across the Litani river north of Tyre in southern Lebanon Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. A truck carrying humanitarian food aid is seen behind. Aid workers are increasingly frustrated over the lack of access for delivering aid in Lebanon and Ronald Huguenin, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said that Israel had refused to let a Greek ship carrying humanitarian aid and food to dock in either Tyre or Sidon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

[UrbScotty]

2. Banning gay marriage is far more important

Forget about those who are less fortunate.

MARRIAGE IS UNDER ATTACK!

It is far more inportant to ban gay marriage than it is to give aid to those who need it!

:sarcasm:

[havocmom]

3. .

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4. This will surely strike a blow against Hezbollah

There's no way the Lebanese can possibly prefer Hezbollah to their neighbors in Israel now. This will surely win all sorts of hearts and minds to the cause of freedom and democracy.

Is this what Bush voters envisioned back in 2004? Is this the kind of country they wanted, one that backed wholesale starvation?