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The
6th day
Dear
friends,
Today
is the 6th day of the war on Lebanon.
Yesterday
I didn't write any thing because of the
electricity and because I lost the connection to
the Internet, the cut hours became more and I hope
we'll have electricity for some hours every day so
I can work on my PC and the food in the fridge
stay good for eat and also to have water, mostly
we use artesian wells drill between houses. I
think this is good in current situation because
Israelis airplanes attacked water facilities and
that caused to stop pumping water in main system,
so all we need is electricity to have tap water
but unfortunately it not good for drink and I
think this will become big problem to have
drinkable water if the war stays for long time.
The
night of the 5th day and the day also witnessed
the most violent night in the war, the Israelis
used special bombs to drop down the building and
also they used special missiles that dig in earth
to find tunnels or shelters under the ground
because the Israelis think the Hezbollah leaders
are living under the ground. But today and last
night was quite except some intermittent bombing
every 2 or 3 hours, which enabled some people to
find what they need of essential materials like
food or fuel.
I'm
living now in the camp of Palestinian that located
in southern suburb of Beirut, exactly in Burj
Albrajineh district, nearly 500 meters from Hhart
Hraik where the Israelis are bombing the Hezbollah's headquarters. The camp is the only
inhabitant place in the southern suburb of Beirut
and maybe you'll think that why the people of the
camp stayed when every one in the surrounded areas
left their homes, the answer is simple, because
the majority of the camp inhabitant are
Palestinian refugees and there're some Iraqi
refugees are living there like me and my friends
and we don't have another place we can go to if we
think to leave the camp. The Lebanese whom living
in the areas around the camp have relatives and
they left to live with them or they left to live
in schools or temporary shelters provided for them
by the governments, but we the refugees and
specially the Iraqis which compose nearly %90 of
the refugees in Lebanon, there are nearly 15000
Iraqi refugees in Lebanon. There are nearly
300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The ANRWA
is looking for the Palestinian refugees and till
today I didn't hear about any emergency plans to
help the Palestinian refugees and the same from
the UNHCR that looking for the non Palestinian
refugees, at any way nothing new, we used to live
by ourselves and without any help from the UNHCR,
but one thing is painful, why those whom working
for the UNHCR got very high salaries when at war
time and when we need them, we don't find them.
Today I called the office of UNHCR but no one
answered me! They're still in their homes!!!
Notice the office is located in Beirut in safe
area where many embassies are there so there isn't
any kind of danger, but it still closed because
the workers of UNHCR don't dare to leave their
homes!
Toddy
and for 2d time I heard in local news that one
Iraqi killed because of the bombing in south of
Lebanon.
Our
big problem is the fears from bombing the camp;
the Israelis didn't bomb any camp in Lebanon till
now. Our other problems are the shortage in food,
water for wash and drink, electricity and finally
the garbage. There was company called Sukleen
working in Beirut for collect the garbage from
houses and move to dumps outside Beirut, now this
company stopped since the first day of the war
because all the workers are Syrians and they left
to Syrian because of the war. People in the camp
still throw garbage in the place where they used
before the war and now it accumulated and started
smell, I think if the war will continue for long
time, the garbage will be source for diseases.
The
funny thing in this tragedy and suffering is my
blind cat, since the first morning of the bombing
she became anxious and some time nervous. She
started to spend hours under the cooker, she
didn't go the re before the war, maybe she thinks
it's safer there under the cooker because it has
the lower roof in the room and it iron so it'll
protect her from the Israelis bombs. LOL, poor
cat, she is blind and got mange and now she is
afraid from the bombs. To read more about my cat,
please look here: http://www.unhcr.info/cat
I
hope I can publish this message tomorrow. I don't
have connection now and also all the net shops in
the camp, the shops in the southern suburb are
closed is I'll try to go to the eastern Beirut and
look for net shop to publish this message.
Peace
upon you.
The
truth warrior
Osam
Altaee
Beirut
17/July/2006
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