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...P.L.O. youth organization; a baby called Palestine who was born when her mother's stomach was slit open in a bombing raid of Beirut in the summer of 1981; and Samer, the four-year-old son of Colonel Azmi, head of the P.L.O. forces stationed around Tyre. The hope was to find these children alive after three weeks of war; if not to meet them face to face, then at least to learn of their whereabouts...
...Tyre at last, inquiries are made at Israeli headquarters whether anyone knows where Colonel Azmi's family might be. The commander suggests that the Greek bishop would have some information; it is believed that Azmi's wife and son Samer lived with the bishop for a time after the colonel was reported killed. The bishop says no; he thinks that Mrs. Azmi stayed with a Roman Catholic priest for a while. It is so. The priest says that she and Samer lived with him two weeks, but that they left two days ago to stay with friends...
Still, one pokes around Tyre a little while longer, peering foolishly into the faces of four-year-olds...
...soil. The older ones are festooned with the kinds of ribbons used on candy boxes. A discarded stretcher lies off in a corner beside a green hospital mask. There is shelling to the south. Back at the Commodore a message comes through that Colonel Azmi is reported killed in Tyre. Is the boy Samer alive...
...Cross has been able to dispatch aid to Lebanon via Syria and Israel. In addition, the Israelis are gearing up to help the civilians they have made to suffer so grievously. Last week they sent a convoy of 20 ambulances, ten medical-supplies vehicles and 25 doctors to Tyre and Sidon. Individual Israelis have donated chocolate candy, blankets and clothes to Lebanese youngsters. There was even a scheme devised by the Israeli National Labor Federation to bring homeless mothers with infant children from Lebanon into Israeli homes for several weeks. Such moves were admirable. But to the innocent victims...