{"id":1534,"date":"2006-07-25T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T17:38:44","slug":"aid-door-to-lebanon-closed-un-agencies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Aid door to Lebanon closed, U.N. agencies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L25629962.htm\">MATTER OF HOURS<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have urgently needed tents, mattresses, blankets and other aid which would be delivered in only a matter of hours if only we had access to the country,&#8221; said Pagonis.<\/p>\n<p>Olmert&#8217;s announcement of an air lift and a linked offer of a humanitarian corridor from Israel itself came after talks in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Top U.N. officials and independent humanitarian bodies have been calling on Israel for days to guarantee the security of aid convoys to heavily bombed areas of the south.<\/p>\n<p>But, asked later for comment on the Israeli move, Pagonis said it did not appear &#8220;to address the immediate situation we are confronted with right now&#8221; &#8212; the absence of safe passage authorisation for the supplies waiting in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>And another U.N. source said a route through Israel would take much longer to organise and greatly delay the arrival of urgently needed food, medical supplies and relief equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate telephone news conference, officials of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva and Beirut said they were also having problems in moving around in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A big problem is access, to bring first aid and to get supplies to hospitals,&#8221; WHO representative in Lebanon Jaouad Mahjour said on a radio-telephone link from Beirut. &#8220;Another big problem is evacuating the injured.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTER OF HOURS &#8220;We have urgently needed tents, mattresses, blankets and other aid which would be delivered in only a matter of hours if only we had access to the country,&#8221; said Pagonis. Olmert&#8217;s announcement of an air lift and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-oK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}