Food Running Out In South Lebanon
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer Tyre, Lebanon (AHN)-The mayor of Tyre, Lebanon, Abdel-Mohsen al Husseini, says the port city could run out of food in two days as humanitarian agencies tried to get aid to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it had not been able to reach villages from where it had hoped to take several hundred people, including wounded, to safety in the north. The United Nations' Human Rights Council (UNHCR) refugee agency condemned Israel's dropping of leaflets telling people in heavily populated areas in Beirut to flee on Thursday, which prompted hundreds to evacuate, saying, "We once again strongly appeal to all parties in the conflict to protect civilians and infrastructure during this conflict in accordance with international law." The U.N. World Food Program, overseeing logistics for U.N. agencies, says a 15-truck convoy proceeded to the eastern town of Baalbek after it halted due to shelling a day earlier, with WFP spokesman Robin Lodge saying, "We have clearance for everything north of the Litani. Below that it's still a no-go area." The WFP says it had brought in 650 metric tons of aid, enough for 180,000 people in Lebanon and Syria, although that remained "far off the mark" from its goal of 300,000. Meanwhile, in Geneva, a total of 27 members of the 47 on the U.N.'s new rights body-includi |
