Israeli Airstrike Targets Medical Convoy
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Courtesy of: BreakingNews.ie
18/07/2006

A truck carrying United Arab Emirates medical aid for Lebanon was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike today, an Emirates official said.

In Beirut, a Lebanese security official confirmed that one truck in a convoy of vehicles transporting Emirates aid had been hit and set on fire as it was travelling along a mountain road shortly after crossing into lebanon.

The convoy, which included ambulances, was clearly marked as a Relief Operation, the Emirates official said.

...Lebanese TV broadcast pictures of a truck on fire and another damaged on the mountain road. The aid was part of Emirates' support for Lebanon during the Israeli offensive.


Source:
http://breakingnews.ie/2006/07/18/story268329.html