Reuters: Bridge bombing paralyses Lebanon aid pipeline

[Eugene]

Bridge bombing paralyses Lebanon aid pipeline

By Michael Winfrey
Reuters
Friday, August 4, 2006; 5:08 AM

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel's overnight bombing of highway bridges in northern
Lebanon and strikes at a Hizbollah stronghold in south Beirut paralyzed aid
convoys on Friday and relief workers warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis.

Israeli jets destroyed three bridges on the main coastal highway linking Beirut
to Syria, stalling an eight-truck convoy carrying food, shelter material and
other aid to the estimated 900,000 Lebanese displaced by the three-week-old war.

Astrid van Genderen Stort, senior information officer for the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees said the bombing had shut down the major relief pipeline for supplies
traveling to the hardest-hit areas in the south.

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The UNHCR was also forced to postpone trips around Beirut to assess the needs and
deliver aid to up to 400,000 people living with host families or in schools and parks
in the area.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080400146.html

[theHandpuppet]

1. WAR CRIMES

This country needs to cut off all funding to Israel RIGHT FRICKIN' NOW.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. It's breathtakingly cruel. One has to wonder if they are deliberately

terrorizing these poor people. THe fact that their war crimes takes attention from our war crimes means the whole slaughter will go on until the entire world is enraged and Syria somebody joins the fray.

[mom cat]

3. Kick!