Israeli Warships Blockading Aid To Lebanon's Needy.....

[leftchick]

Red Cross: Israel denying safe passage

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_aid

Without guarantees of safe passage, the Red Cross has been unable to move supplies beyond the port city of Tyre to towns and villages south of the Litani River, where thousands of people are believed trapped, said Richard Huguenin, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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"It is now a question of the humanitarian consequences of what is looking like a blockade," Huguenin told The Associated Press in Tyre.

"At night we ask for permission and in the morning we get either a red light or a green light and for the past 48 hours it has been red," he said.

The Israeli army told the AP Monday that humanitarian agencies wishing to send convoys into the area should coordinate with the military in advance as they have in the past. The army said that in the past, it has been necessary to deny permission for military operational reasons, but no convoy had ever been hit.

A Greek ship loaded with Red Cross supplies had been due Monday but was denied permission to dock in Tyre and was diverted to Sidon, north of the Litani, Huguenin said. Israeli warships have blockaded ports since the conflict began, only letting aid ships into Beirut and occasionally into the southern ports.



Look At The Hell These Aid Workers Have to go Through Because of Israel's Hard Line Stance...



Workers from the aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres,or Doctors Without Borders, transfer medical supplies from a truck by hand intended for southern Lebanon across the Litani River north of the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. The only road link that crossed the river between Tyre in south Lebanon and Sidon was destroyed by Israeli bombardment overnight, essentially sealing the city from the rest of the country. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

[partylessinOhio]

1. Your tax $$$$ at work! Why did we buy Israel all these war toys?

This is criminal. Wake the hell up, America!

These are war crimes being perpetrated right before your eyes!

[bigtree]

2. been building for days with Israel's continued assaults

Tyre, Sidon . . . the port where the aid is being directed . . .Israel knows this

[leftchick]

3. this is killing me

I have not seen this mentioned anywhere on tv. Actually it will be killing many Lebanese!

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[bigtree]

5. corralled, told to stay indoors . . . as if they had doors to stay within

all the while, the world fiddles as Israel continues their bloody reprisals aimed directly at the Lebanese; the same Lebanese who the US says they want to help contain Hizbollah. That, and the 'peace' agreement which makes no mention of removing Israel from Lebanon, allowing them to continue to fire at will . . .

[mom cat]

6. This is maddening, heartbrealing and is a war crime of massive

proportions. Keep calling your congress critters and tell them that they must demand that this stop immediately and that they must stop funding for the aggressors!

[leftchick]

4. Tyre is still being targeted....

Lebanese living at a camp for evacuees make their way down a hall at a school in the city of Tyre (Soure) some 85 km (53 miles) south of Beirut August 7, 2006. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)

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