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 29
June 2007
Lebanon: the call of humanitarian duty
Youssef Boutros, head of the Lebanese
Red Cross Emergency Medical Service (EMS) teams in the Northern
District, was reluctant to be unfair to the young men and women
who looked exhausted and whose bodies longed for sleep after
weeks of very long days and very short nights. He did not want
to take the decision himself, so he left the matter to them.
“Those who want to leave can, those who want to stay are
welcome to,” he said.
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 14
June 2007
Lebanon: life-saving evacuations continue out of Nahr el-Bared
camp
In spite of continuing hostilities,
Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) and Palestinian Red Crescent Society
(PRCS) volunteers and staff continue life-saving evacuations
of wounded and vulnerable civilians out of the Palestinian refugee
camp of Nahr el-Bared, near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. For
nearly a month now, where intense fighting has continued in
the camp, between an armed militia group, Fatah al Islam and
the Lebanese army.
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 5
June 2007
Lebanon: courage and caution to evacuate civilians from Nahr-el-Bared
camp
Heavy fighting continues in the
Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, near Tripoli in northern
Lebanon, between Islamic armed groups and the Lebanese army.
According to local Red Cross and Red Crescent sources, thousands
of civilians remain in the camp. Working in close cooperation
and round the clock, Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and
Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) volunteers are delivering relief to
families still inside the camp and evacuating the wounded. This
essential coordination has helped thousands of people to leave
the camp safely.
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 8
February 2007
Lebanon: the courage of an old woman saves her husband’s
life
A story of courage and heroism
during the war in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. In spite of
shelling and extreme fatigue, an aging lady never gave up on
getting her wounded husband to hospital. She carried her 80-year-old
husband on her back at times and dragged him for a while. Then,
Hajjah Sahrifah, 64 years old, used a wheelbarrow to get him
to hospital when she could not carry the old man any more. But,
she never let go of him.
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 22
November 2006
Lebanese Red Cross: emerging stronger from hostilities
The Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) has
been, since 1995 and by governmental mandate, the most important
provider of first aid and medical ambulance services in the
country. During the month-long hostilities which devastated
Lebanon between mid-July and mid-August, it faced its biggest
challenge ever: responding to the emergency needs of a population
of nearly four million people, of whom nearly 800,000 fled to
other parts of Lebanon and thus became internally displaced.
Nearly 200,000 people fled to Syria.
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