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...Most of them are civilians fleeing the villages that dot the hills southeast of here, heading north for the relative safety of the port town of Tyre, or further up the coast beyond the Litani river. But some vehicles head the other way - straight into the killing zone that south Lebanon has become since Israel's onslaught against Lebanese Hizballah guerrillas began 13 days ago. These are the ambulances of the Lebanese Red Cross, driven by fearless young men and women volunteers who risk their lives each day to ferry casualties from villages cut off by shelling and bomb cratered...
...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...
...ambulances, driven by Qassem Shaalan, had left Tyre at around 10 p.m., having arranged to meet another ambulance coming from Tibnine, some 15 miles away, at Qana, which lies between the two towns. The Tibnine ambulance was carrying three people, a husband and wife and their 14-year-old son. All three had been injured in Israeli artillery shelling around Tibnine and their condition was sufficiently serious to dispatch them to hospital in Tyre. It took Shaalan about 15 minutes to reach Qana, having steered his ambulance around the numerous bomb craters in the road. As usual, the ambulance...
...left for Tyre this morning after loading up on food and water for several days. Other correspondents have told us the situation is grim there, and that we need to bring our own supplies. We also considered bringing our own fuel, because the Israelis have reportedly bombed most gas stations in the area, so a black market for fuel has developed. Five gallons of gas now cost $50 - if you can find the gas at all. Bombing the gas stations is ostensibly to limit Hizballah's movements, and maybe it's accomplishing that. But it's also making the cost...
...Finally entering Tyre was like entering a ghost town. There was no obvious damage, but there were almost no people. As we got deeper into town, near our hotel, more people appeared: young men sitting on plastic chairs watching the traffic and drinking tea. Our hotel is in a Christian area of town and considered safe from Israeli bombs. The young men are there to make sure no Hizballah fighters come in and bring the Jewish state's wrath down...