amounts of depressing and appalling photos that she receives for her newspaper...
And she is still writing... please read and forward... kx
Dear all,
Sad stories in the paper today. A colleague went to see a family in
AL Zahra Hospital In Beirut, they told her how they fled
Tireh village in the south
their house was bombed, some of the family members
stayed under the rubble, the rest went to the neighbours' house.
It was also hit, and under its rubbles were left more family members...
The rest ran away.
Their car was targeted on the road. More of them got killed.
They met a UN convoy and screamed for help.
What happened next is the following : one UN soldier was
taking their picture ,
and when he finished ,
he yelled "no , no "
and left them there.
Now the father and two sisters are in a hospital in the south,
and the rest of the family is in Beirut. (the shayto's picture below ).
My other colleague toured some schools hosting refugees
with a group of doctors.
Conclusion : spread of diseases due to lack of hygiene:
when you don't have water, or washing machines ,
when tens, sometimes hundred of people shared school rooms,
this is bound to happen.
She also met a group of some 30 people who could not find
a place in public schools and who are now in a garden of an empty house.
She tells the story of the 80 year old woman there who wouldn't eat,
because she wants to spare the food for the children.
She told Saada , my colleague, it would be a waste for her to eat
whereas the kids are hungry.
Milia did a small thing about a fx some hospitals
in the south received from a local association,
offering very attractive packages for nurses and radiologists needed in the US.
Now, here, the US is recruiting medical staff.
Faten went to the Securite Generale and found out
that loads of people are applying for passports:
five thousand passports are issued every day since July 13th
( in a country of 3,5 million people).
Some 151 thousand Lebanese nationals have left the county in nine days.
(betw July 13 and July 25th)
Habib wrote about Green Peace closing their offices
in Lebanon at a time the sea is plagued with unprecedented
pollution due to the Israeli shelling of fuel tank reserves that made
our sea's colour look black.
Experts say it will take the water, the rocks, the sand
and the fish tens of years to recover.
People shoud not swim in the sea for long years to come.
The minister of health annouced today that 600 people were killed
and some 1300 injured since the Israeli aggression started
on July the 12th.
George W. Bush says he's against a ceasefire
that does not solve the problem from the roots.
Well , tell him it's working :
we're being exterminated from the roots.
Hanady Salman
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