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...have a protection because we are the Red Cross so we can reach villages where others can't go," says Sami Yazbek, chief of the Tyre Red Cross department. But on Sunday night, the emblem of the Red Cross was not enough to deter an Israeli helicopter gunship from firing missiles into a pair of ambulances loading casualties in the village of Qana, six miles southeast of Tyre, wounding an already injured family of three along with all six paramedics...
...hear them pleading on the phone, and we can't help but cry. Terrified civilians in outlying villages constantly call. There is nothing we can do." --SAMI YAZBEK, chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre...
...Sami Yazbek, chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre, claims that even his clearly marked white-and-orange ambulances have been attacked by Israeli missile fire, which blow up the road yards in front of their vehicles. The unrelenting pressure to bring aid to the stranded villagers is beginning to take a psychological toll on his team of 50 volunteers. Distraught civilians in outlying villages constantly call in for help, Yazbek says, but often there is nothing the Red Cross can do. "We hear them pleading on the phone and we can't help but cry. It's very...
...Israeli shelling of a Gaza beach--killing eight, including five members of one family--that united the Palestinians in outrage. Israel expressed regret, but that didn't placate Hamas' military wing, which ended the cease-fire and fired at least 15 rockets into Israel. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told TIME: "Hamas cannot stand idly by while the Israeli army kills women and children...
...East and adjunct professor of international studies at USF who worked closely with al-Arian on U.S.-Muslim dialogue, told TIME after al-Arian's acquittal late last year, "I think the disgraceful, overzealous way the U.S. pursued this case has hurt its credibility [in the Arab world]. But Sami lied to me and his colleagues, and all the progress we made feels like it's all gone down the drain." Which is where the Feds and al-Arian have both apparently decided to let the matter...