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...hopped in for a swim, and he looked on in wonderment as she steadied herself with her toes against the pool wall and stretched out to float serenely on her back, her long brown hair making a slow swirl in the blue water and her arms outstretched like a cross. She seemed so at peace he thought she might fall asleep on that bed of water. He would later find out that she was a champion swimmer and had once swum around an island in Mexico. She loved to sail. She loved the water. As Rusty Yates now describes...
...joined up with a group of journalists traveling to Tibnine today after the Lebanese Red Cross announced a bread delivery run to a couple of villages on the way. The route is very dangerous, said Qassim Chalaan, a driver and training manager at the Red Cross headquarters in Tyre. He said he could not be responsible for our safety, and indeed, word reached us through huddled phone calls that the Israelis could not guarantee that they wouldn't strike our convoy...
...That possibility was a real fear. On Sunday night, Israeli missiles struck two ambulances as they rendezvoused in Qana, about 12 miles southeast of Tyre. It's a meeting place for the Red Cross drivers, who take wounded from surrounding villages at Qana to Tyre. Chalaan was one of the drivers on Sunday and his ambulance was struck just as he finished putting three wounded people into the Tyre-bound ambulance. Moments later, the second, an empty ambulance, was struck. The three civilians - a mother, her son and his five-year-old child - were seriously injured, with the son losing...
...Today, as we passed through Qana following the Lebanese Red Cross, we saw the two ambulances in the middle of a wide street. As twisted and blackened as they were, it was still possible to see they were white Volkswagen minivans clearly marked with a blue emergency light and red crosses on their roofs...
...Once we got to the hospital, I met Abou Alawi, along with many others. At least 1,350 refugees are crammed into the small hospital, according to the Lebanese Red Cross and hospital employees. Their stories are a litany of fear, flight and desperation...