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...took off my bandages before I went to visit my mother. She kissed the ground when she saw me," Shaalan says. By the afternoon, Shaalan and his two colleagues from Tyre were back in their orange jumpsuits and reporting once more for duty...
...opened his eyes and checked himself to see if he was hurt. One of his colleagues, Nader Joudi, was standing, but the third member of the team, Mohammed Hassan, was unconscious. One of the Tibnine medics put through an emergency call to the Red Cross operations room in Tyre that they were under attack. Then a second missile struck the other ambulance. Hassan started regaining consciousness as the medics, all of them hurt, hauled the family out of the back of the ambulance and carried them into a neighboring building. Several more missiles exploded on the road and around...
...very badly hurt," Joudi says. They had to wait an hour and a half for the rescue ambulances to arrive, the time it took for the Red Cross in Geneva to contact the Israeli authorities and request safe passage to evacuate the wounded.The 50-strong Red Cross team in Tyre has had several narrow escapes since the war began - one of their ambulances was almost blown up by a missile fired from an Israeli jet. But Joudi admits he was surprised that they were attacked in such a flagrant fashion. "We have had near misses but they have never targeted...
...Israelis have been bombing much of southern Lebanon, but Bint Jbeil - which commands a strategic height - has been a scene of intense shelling. Residents have been forced to flee to the town of Tibnine, southeast of Tyre, where they're holed up in the city's hospital. "Most of the houses have been destroyed," said Abou Alawi, describing how she ran from house to house as the Israelis bombed structure after structure...
...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...