Updates

By Matthew Tostevin JERUSALEM, July 23 (Reuters) - Envoys from three European countries joined intensifying diplomacy in Israel on Sunday aimed at ending fighting between Israeli forces and Hizbollah...

July 23, 2006 - Four of Canada's largest relief agencies are joining together to raise funds for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. CARE...

BEIRUT, July 23 (Reuters) - An unarmed U.N. military observer was wounded during fighting between Hizbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, a U.N. spokesman said. "According to...

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BEIRUT, 23 July (IRIN) - Inaam Haidar and her twin children, Hadi and Hiba, aged eight, were trapped in a village south of...

Several teams of SDC experts are currently operating in Lebanon, Cyprus and Syria. Delegate for Humanitarian Aid Toni Frisch is to travel to Beirut. Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and West...

Operation USA, a 27 year old Los Angeles-based international relief agency, is responding to the carnage in Lebanon and Gaza with a pending air shipment of medical relief from its Port of Los Angeles...

TYRE, Lebanon, July 23 (Reuters) - Six Lebanese Red Cross paramedics were wounded late on Sunday when Israeli warplanes hit their vehicles in southern Lebanon, security sources said. They said the...

By Dominic Evans ALEY, Lebanon, July 23 (Reuters) In the classrooms of the Khaled Jumblatt school in the hills above Beirut, washing lines hang from the windows and babies cry in the corridors. ...

By Dominic Evans BEIRUT, July 23 (Reuters) - The United Nations is still waiting for Israel to guarantee safe passage of aid to areas of Lebanon hardest hit in 12 days of bombardment, the U.N...

Naqoura, 23 July 2006 - Heavy exchanges of fire continued with the same intensity along the length of the Blue Line in the last 24 hours. Hezbollah fired rockets from various locations, and the IDF...

BEIRUT, July 23 (UNHCR) - Conditions for fleeing Lebanese seeking refuge in the mountain areas north of Beirut are precarious, with relief supplies needed urgently to cope with the growing numbers of...

Each week, the World Health Organization Department for Health Action in Crises in Geneva produces information highlights on the health aspects of selected humanitarian crises. Drawing on the various...

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BEIRUT, 23 July (IRIN) - The UN's Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, is asking for money from the international...

By Alaa Shahine BEIRUT, July 23 (Reuters) - Ahmed Khalil Ali was wounded in the arm by Israeli artillery shelling of his southern Lebanese village in 1974. Last week, he lost his legs in a heavy...

By Tom Perry BEIRUT, July 23 (Reuters) - Israel unleashed more air strikes on Lebanon and Hizbollah fired rockets at Haifa on Sunday as a senior U.N. official demanded a halt to the violence to allow...

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BEIRUT, 23 July (IRIN) - Jan Egeland, the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, is in Lebanon pushing for a safe humanitarian...

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) NOTE: The last information bulletin was...

Athens 22 July 2006 - Today, Saturday 22 July, 2006, at 10:30, the second Navy Ship "RHODES", reached the port of Beirut, in coordination with the foreign ministry's Hellenic Aid Department, carrying...

As the death toll in Lebanon surpassed 350, including large numbers of children, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator headed to the country as part of his bid to facilitate 'humanitarian...

Najia Ahmad IMC staff in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have sent assessment teams to Jbail in the north of Beirut to determine immediate emergency needs in Lebanon where there are expected to be 500,000...