IRAQ: THE RED CRESCENT IN IRAQ HAS DELIVERED SEVERAL TRUCK-LOADS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE TO THE HOSPITAL IN FALLUJA
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647943
IRAQ: THE RED CRESCENT IN IRAQ HAS DELIVERED SEVERAL TRUCK-LOADS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE TO THE HOSPITAL IN FALLUJA
- Title: IRAQ: THE RED CRESCENT IN IRAQ HAS DELIVERED SEVERAL TRUCK-LOADS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE TO THE HOSPITAL IN FALLUJA
- Date: 15th November 2004
- Summary: (U4) FALLUJA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF FALLUJA HOSPITAL 0.04 2. SLV/SV/SLV RED CRESCENT STAFF LEAVING FALLUJA HOSPITAL AND SHAKING HANDS WITH THE HOSPITAL STAFF; AID TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES LEAVING AND U.S. SOLDIERS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL (8 SHOTS) 0.59 (U4) AMIRIYAT AL-FALLUJA (NORTH OF FALLUJA), IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15,2004) (REUTERS) 3. LV/SV STREET SCENE/ RED CRESCENT STAFF UNLOADING THE AID TRUCKS (4 SHOTS) 1.28 4. MCU (Arabic) ONE OF FALLUJA REFUGEES SAYING: "Falluja is suffering now , bodies are in the streets, they drove their tanks over wounded people, also they are burning the houses and families inside it. They are attacking Islam. They are destroying the mosques, they can't reach the fighters so they are attacking civilians and innocents." 1.54 5. SLV RED CRESCENT STAFF UNLOADING SUPPLIES 2.00 (U4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15,2004) (REUTERS) 6. MCU (Arabic) FIRDOSE IBADI IRAQI RED CRESCENT SPOKESWOMAN SAYING: "We were not allowed to enter Falluja , we went only to Falluja hospital, we sent three aid trucks and three ambulances they spent three nights in Falluja hospital. They can't leave it , and as you know Falluja hospital is located west of the city not at the centre." 2.32 7. CU OF IRQI AND IRAQI RED CRESCENT FLAGS 2.37 8. SV IBADI WRITING ON BOARD 2.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 30th November 2004 12:00
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- Location: FALLUJA AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA1CZDSQG4BBUF4H0KK2QZGOUUW
- Story Text: The Red Crescent in Iraq has delivered seven
truck-loads of food and medicine to the hospital in Falluja.
Iraq's Red Crescent group has sent seven truck-loads
of food and medicine to the city, but the U.S. forces on
Monday (November 15) blocked the aid convoy at Falluja's
main hospital and said it could not enter the battle
scarred city.
A U.S. Marine commander said American forces were
working to deliver assistance in the city themselves. Any
Iraqis needing help would be told to go to the hospital, on
the western outskirts of the city, across the Euphrates
river, he said.
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said he
doesn't believe any civilians were killed in the offensive,
which has left 38 U.S. soldiers, 6 Iraqi troops and more
than 1,200 insurgents dead. But witness accounts
contradicted him.
Officials from Iraqi Red Crescent said that people
trapped inside the city, whose population was put at about
300,000 before the offensive but has fallen to around
60,000 according to some estimates, are reaching a point of
desperation.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed more than 1,000
insurgents in the battle to retake the Sunni Muslim city of
Falluja, an Iraqi minister said on Saturday.
Insurgents do not disclose their losses and there was
no independent confirmation of the figures provided.
U.S. Marine Lieutenant General John Sattler said on
Friday his forces occupied about 80 percent of Falluja but
that even within that area there was still "clearing up" to
do.
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