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  Updated: August 9, 2006

UN aid supplies for south Lebanon frozen

By: Anjum Kermani

GENEVA: Aid agencies said UN relief aid in southern Lebanon has been completely frozen despite Israeli assurances that humanitarian convoys would be excluded from attack warnings on any moving vehicle south of the Litani River.

Speaking to journalists, a spokeswoman for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Christiane Berthiaume said that further deliveries of urgently needed supplies to towns and villages in south Lebanon were on hold.

The Israeli military on Tuesday dropped leaflets warning it would strike any vehicle, "whatever its nature", traveling south of the Litani river on suspicion of transporting weapons.

Supplies managed to get through in the south in recent days, but on at least two occasions other vehicles just 30 metres (33 yards) away were struck by missiles, according to the WFP.


 
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