7.20.2006

Newsweek: Food and Medical Supplies Hitting Serious Shortages in Lebanon

Report here; the infrastructure of Lebanon is largely gone or so seriously damaged it may as well be missing altogether.

Elsewhere, Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the U.N., has called for an immediate halt to the fighting but with firefights raging between Israel and Hezbollah forces and the death toll rising higher with each passing day, plus Israel's insistence it will not stop until Hezbollah is demolished, Annan admits he sees little hope for a ceasefire.