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286:"The Oxfam rapid response team only managed to get in yesterday... The reason was lack of security- the bombing. We have still been unable to get our aid workers to the south where they are desperately needed. We have to think extremely carefully about where we go and in what vehicles, because the Israelis are attacking vehicles over a certain length. It means that only 20 tonnes at a time is getting moved. On the Syrian border the
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Southern Lebanon after the
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on 24 July: "All the smaller roads leading to the coastal roads are destroyed ... In some areas you have people pushing cars by hand through obstacles made by a rocket or a bomb." While the IDF has allowed the entrance of some ships carrying aid to
Lebanon, it is reported that international agencies
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This assessment was reiterated on August 11 by UN Under-Secretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief, Jan Egeland, who reported:"Hezbollah has not denied us access.. I have heard some reports which I cannot confirm that they have prevented civilians from leaving the area, but they
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Attacks on bridges, particularly attacks on highways/bridges linking
Lebanon to Syria ongoing through July but increased around August 1, prevented an eight-truck convoy carrying food and other humanitarian aid from reaching an estimated "400,000 people living with host families or in schools and
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On August 11, it was reported that the IDF was preventing access to aid ships at the port of Tyre. This was following the previous IDF announcement that the IDF would bomb any vehicles on the roads in the Tyre area. The IDF decision to stall the aid for nine days off the coast of
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has disputed involvement in some cases, and has also alleged that no prior coordination took place before some affected convoys set out. These allegations have in turn been disputed. There have also been reports that fear of aerial attack has prevented drivers from transporting
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have not denied us access in." Criticism of IDF attacks on roads has also been voiced by UN staff in the region of South
Lebanon who claim that IDF bombing of roads is making it impossible for people to flee the fighting. According to a UN spokesman in the area of
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weapons across the border into
Lebanon" but provided no evidence of smuggling taking place. By the time of the attacks, two of the four border crossings into Syria were closed because of damage- the main Beirut-Damascus highway was described by
243:"The problem is completely different. It is Hezbollah who is deliberately preventing the transfer of medical aid and of food to the population of southern Lebanon in order to create a humanitarian crisis, which they want to blame Israel for"
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estimated total repair and reconstruction costs rising to $ 7 Billion US. Repairs to roads, bridges ports and airports, was estimated at $ 404m. Initial figures were that 94 roads and 70 bridges were bombed by the IDF.
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killing eighteen civilians including women and children.
901:"Aid Workers Frustrated Over Lack Of Access In Lebanon"
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512:"LEBANON: Aid agencies hampered by Israeli strikes"
466:"Aid convoy hit in Lebanon as UN accuses Hezbollah"
341:"Aid convoy hit in Lebanon as UN accuses Hezbollah"
419:Attacks on food transports scare aid organizations
199:Criticism of attacks on Lebanese roads and convoys
638:"War paralyses Lebanon aid despite UN resolution"
205:United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
369:"IDF Dismisses U.N. Charges of Attack on Convoy"
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848:"Israel rejects UN call for humanitarian truce"
557:Death toll rises to 30 in Monday raid on Beirut
464:Naughton, Philippe; Byers, David (2006-07-28).
870:"Israeli attacks stall aid efforts in Lebanon"
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447:"Red Cross drivers won't take aid to Lebanon"
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215:"Many people are simply unable to leave
788:"3 soldiers killed in Hizbullah ambush"
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749:"UN aid convoy heads to south Lebanon"
686:"White flags, not a legitimate target"
656:"Death toll rises from convoy attack"
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