dimanche, juillet 30, 2006

LETTER FROM MY FRIEND SIBA FROM LEBANON JUST HOURS AFTER THE ISRAELI STRIKE OVER LEBANON

"Dear Yamen & the entire group,

First of all I would like to assure you that we are still alive! Although two of my sisters have left & escaped to a safer place
First days I were under a big shock, as may some of them knew I were attending a workshop in Amman with UNIFEM & just arrived to Rafic Hariri airport 20 hours only before being bombarded by Israeli warplanes!
Now our offices of LECORVAW are networking with other governmental, key-sectors of the civil society & NGOs to join forces & provide relief for refugees that have escaped their destroyed houses.
We are trying to assure fundraising for the emergency actions we are undertaking & thank GOD yesterday I have succeeded in obtaining one.
Half million Lebanese refugees have flee their houses to a safer zones! The majority of bridges are being destroyed by the enemy so that the different Lebanese regions will become isolated, lots of genocides, not to mention also the cutoff imposed on the Lebanese shore & forbidding the relief ships to attend the Lebanese coast."