Red
Cross volunteers in Lebanon: from dusk to dawn
Since hostilities began
in Lebanon, some two weeks ago, more than 5,000
Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), volunteers and staff,
working under increasingly dangerous and life-threatening
situations, continue to evacuate the wounded,
the sick and distribute essential relief and medicines
to displaced families, sometimes at the peril
of their life, especially in the south of the
country. Lebanese Red Cross paramedics are providing
the only ambulance service in the country to transport
patients from the hardest-hit areas near the Israeli
border to Tyre, and from there, to safer cities
such as Beirut.
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