Humanitarian groups in Lebanon:

[spindrifter]

strikes endanger aid convoys

Haaretz: Wed., August 02, 2006 Av 8, 5766

By The Associated Press

BEIRUT - Aid groups struggling to get food and medicine to Lebanese villages ravaged by Israeli airstrikes described harrowing journeys south yesterday, caught off-guard by increased air raids during a supposed 48-hour lull.

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Israel denied access to two of the three U.N. convoys that planned to go south yesterday. One made it to the southern port city of Tyre and was en route to Tibnin, where some 1,700 civilians were reported holed up in a hospital last week, with food and water supplies dwindling. Another reached Qana, where nearly 60 civilians died in a massive Israeli airstrike Sunday.

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While the U.N. and other international organizations apply for access to the war zone, Mercy Corps, an independent nonprofit group, notified Israel yesterday but did not wait for a response.

"If we wait for permission, we'll never get down here. We can't sit and wait for them to decide who gets to eat and who doesn't," (Cassandra Nelson, Mercy Corps spokesperson) said.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745295.html

[pooja]

1. did you all see where the one's helping people are the one's

covering the scene... similar to the events in Katrina...

[SeaBob]

2. Good thoughts for the

Mercy Corps people.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Seconded

nt