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...numerous conflicts in the past. "Hospitals and ambulances were usually off limits," he told me. "Not this time." That is why within moments of being jolted out of his sleep one week ago by an explosion, Gharios and his team came up with a plan to keep his patients safe and practice wartime medicine at the same time...
...strikes, making them impassable. Even United Nations peacekeepers with their armored personnel carriers have abandoned the effort to resupply or evacuate residents of southern villages because of the conditions of the roads and the Israeli shelling and air strikes. "We are in close contact with the Israelis to request safe passage but their answer has not been forthcoming," says Milos Strugar, senior advisor to the UN force, known as UNIFIL...
...Supplies - fuel and drinking water especially - are running short, and there seems little immediate prospect of resupply from Beirut. U.N. staff are negotiating with Israel to grant safe passage to a resupply column and also to allow APCs to rescue trapped villagers looking to leave and transport casualties to hospitals. The response from the Israeli military, according to Strugar, "was not forthcoming...
...Jamal, the senior regional officer for the UNHCR, tells me that in one week, 400,000 people in Lebanon - 10% of the country's population - have been displaced. The people in the street below him will not be taken out of the country, he said, but instead moved to "safe havens" in schools in the mountains and near Tripoli in the north. He looks tired, and he should be; he's incredibly short-staffed at the moment because the Lebanese employees of the UNHCR have fled to the mountains themselves...
...have been abducted by terrorists, and two remain missing. Sawiris once shut down IraQna for a couple of days to compel the release of some of his employees. Insurgents, he explains, don't like to be without service. And IraQna has turned out to be a relatively safe bet financially compared with Orascom's adventures in Syria and Yemen, where Orascom was muscled out of partnerships in both countries, says Sawiris, with the Arab regimes there affording no protection or legal recourse. That behavior won't cut it much longer, and governments like Egypt's now realize that Arab businesses...