Aid Corridors 'An Illusion'
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Courtesy Of: Al-Jazeera.net
http://english.aljazeera.net
Friday 28 July 2006

An international medical charity has said that Israel's promised humanitarian aid corridors in South Lebanon are an illusion and that rockets have landed close to its teams two days in a row.

"It's a kind of humanitarian alibi because in effect there is no real humanitarian access in the south," said Christopher Stokes of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders.

"The international community is deluding itself, if it believes there is."

..."We have had contacts [with the Israeli Army]. They have not been very productive, in terms of having contacts for security guarantees and we not been given any encouragement that we would have the guarantees to work in the south," Stokes said.

...Robin Lodge, of the World Food Programme (WFP) said the organisation had been unable to move supplies trucked to Tyre beyond to villages in the south.

..."But for security reasons we are not able to get the areas South of Tyre," he said.

"We are keenly aware of the needs."

The UN estimates there are up to 800,000 people in Lebanon displaced by the fighting and bombing.


Source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D8FA534F-ABB6-4875-A779-35BD9B43F8CB.htm