 Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.The help has been slowed by the difficult logistics of arranging safe passage during Israeli airstrikes, which have blasted close to the few truck convoys that have made the dangerous drive so far.No aid trucks have been hit, but artillery shells fell within hundreds of yards of convoys from the international Red Cross, United Nations and other agencies this week, officials said. Doctors Without Borders was using taxis to transport supplies because ambulances had been targeted, spokesman Sergio Cecchini said Saturday."There is always a risk when we go (to the south). We're never 100% sure that we won't be hit," said Hisham Hassan, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross....
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