WHO WORKS WHERE: Lebanon latest(aid agencies/humanitarian overview)

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http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/115348060912.htm

AlertNet is tracking the work of aid agencies providing relief in Lebanon, and updates this directory regularly. Click here for the latest details on who's working in the region, including press contact information for journalists.

Here's an overview of the humanitarian situation as of Aug. 4:

* Some 900 people have been killed and 3,000 wounded in Lebanon so far, with a third of the casualties children under 12, according to a statement by the country's prime minister, Fouad Siniora. Reuters gives a more conservative estimate, reporting that at least 720 people have been killed as of Aug. 4. Around a million people (25 percent of the country's population) have been displaced by the conflict, according to the Lebanese government.

* Key roads and bridges were bombed north of Beirut on Aug. 4, cutting a vital supply and evacuation route to Syria. The bombing of the highway between Beirut and Syria could "sever the vital humanitarian lifeline" into the country, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) warned. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR is among the agencies that has a supply base in Syria and has been dependent on the destroyed highway for its relief transports. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which is helping stranded migrants leave the country, is now looking for alternative roads with the help of Lebanese authorities...(much more @ link)

[uppityperson]

1. kick for aid workers, interesting list of who is trying to do what where

and how conditions are