Dead are left to rot in the rubble

[spindrifter]

as airstrikes make rescue impossible
By Nicholas Blanford in Tyre

The Times July 20, 2006

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UN armoured convoys cannot retrieve the dead and wounded for fear of being shelled themselves and because the roads are so badly cratered. The dead are being left to rot beneath the rubble of their homes. Nor can the UN force, Unifil, deliver food, water and other basic supplies to either its own observation posts near the border, or to scores of Lebanese villages cut off by the fighting.

Unifil is unable even to retrieve its own casualties. Two civilian staff members, a husband and wife from Nigeria, are thought to have been killed in an Israeli raid on Horsh, just south of Tyre, on Tuesday. A convoy of Chinese engineers was unable to reach the scene that day because of Israeli shelling. Yesterday Unifil could not send out any armoured convoys because of the intensity of the shelling and air raids around Tyre.

Ahmad Mrowe, director of the Jabel Amel hospital, said that one casualty who arrived yesterday had been ferried from the village of Siddiqine by eight cars, each driving from one crater to the next. It took eight hours to cover a distance that usually takes 20 minutes.

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With Tyre almost cut off from the north, the hospital is running short of supplies. Dr Mrowe said: “We only have enough food and drinking water to last another five or six days. We will stay anyway. We’ll never leave.”

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2277855,00.html

[leftchick]

1. I heard the bbc report on the UN couple lost

and no one could reach them :( fuck the ceasefire right bush?? sick mfer!

[malaise]

3. Bush left his own dead

in NOLA. No surprise here.

[TomInTib]

2. War crimes, pure and simple.

Can you imagine the hue and cry if the situation was reversed?

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Lebanon would be nuked -- if roles reversed

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Can they even get an accurate count of the dead?

I've seen the official numbers. I wonder how much higher the real numbers are.

[longship]

6. Just like NOLA.

Just like Katrina. Only in Katrina there was no excuses for not giving the dead some peace.

Actually, there's no excuse here either.