IRAQ: IRAQI RED CRESCENT CONTINUE TO DELIVER HUMANITATIAN ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE OF FALLUJA
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647960
IRAQ: IRAQI RED CRESCENT CONTINUE TO DELIVER HUMANITATIAN ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE OF FALLUJA
- Title: IRAQ: IRAQI RED CRESCENT CONTINUE TO DELIVER HUMANITATIAN ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE OF FALLUJA
- Date: 28th November 2004
- Summary: (U2)FALLUJA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 28, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. SLV CONVOY OF TRUCKS OF IRAQI RED CRESCENT AND AMBULANCES ENTERING FALLUJA 0.08 2. SLV U.S. MARINES SEARCHING AMBULANCE AT EASTERN ENTRANCE TO FALLUJA 0.15 3. SLV DEMOLISHED HOUSE IN AL-ASKARI NEIGHBOURHOOD 0.20 4. SLV DEMOLISHED AND BLACKENED HOUSE AND SMOKE RISING FROM BEHIND 0.26 5. LV OF SMOKE RISING INTO SKY 0.32 6. LV SMOKE CLOUD IN SKY FROM EXPLOSION IN BASE OUTSIDE FALLUJA 0.39 7. SLV CONVOY OF RED CRESCENT IN FALLUJA/ PAN TO VEHICLES OF CONVOY 0.47 8. SV RED CRESCENT VOLUNTEERS UNLOADING AID SUPPLIES FROM TRUCK 0.52 9. SLV OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE RED CRESCENT BASE IN CITY/ VOLUNTEERS CARRYING SUPPLIES INTO HOUSE 0.58 10. MCU (Arabic) HEAD OF RED CRESCENT SAEED HAQI, SAYING: "We brought aid today and we will try to distribute it if not at night today in the morning tomorrow to some families here. we have a meeting with the U.S. command to coordinate this affair to ensure a smooth process of this humanitarian issue." 1.18 11. SV VOLUNTEERS UNLOADING SUPPLIES NEAR BASE 1.23 12. MCU (Arabic) AHMED HAMEED, SAYING: "We do not need food and water, but we want to leave the city to see our families and see what has happened to them. Our families now are holding mourning and funerals for us because they though that we have been killed and we are still living and trapped inside the city. We do not want food, tomato or cucumber and bread, we want to get out of the city." 1.43 13. SV RED CRESCENT VOLUNTEER WIITH FAMILY INSIDE BASE / KISSING CHILD 1.48 14. SV PEOPLE EATING; CHILD EATING; CHILD INSIDE BASE (3 SHOTS) 2.06 15. SV OF MEN PRAYING (2 SHOTS) 2.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA4247VC3MP2IJG72MP3BNQ1DP
- Story Text: Iraqi red crescent continued to deliver
humanitarian assistance to people of Falluja.
Aid is still flowing into Falluja, following the
heavy United States-led offensive that began nearly three
weeks ago to wrest control of the city from the
insurgents. The Iraqi Red Crescent said they were
delivering aid on a daily basis.
The society feared that more than 6,000 people could
have died in the assault and thousands of families are in
critical need of assistance.
Convoys carrying food, water, medicine and blankets and
ambulances are moving around Falluja but there is still no
running water or electricity.
The organisation's president, Dr Said Haqi, said it
had now set up an office close to the city centre.
He described how one man in his mid-50s had
approached them after staying in his house for the past
month - apparently living on water and sugar.
In comments reported by the UN information network Irin,
spokesman Muhammad al-Nuri said the Red Crescent believed
more than 6,000 people may have died in the fight for
Falluja.
He said it was difficult to move around the city
due to the number of dead bodies.
"Bodies can be seen everywhere and people were
crying when receiving the food parcels. It is very sad, it is a human
disaster," Mr Nuri reportedly said.
No outbreaks of disease have been reported but the
destruction is widespread, with at least a third of houses
needing rebuilding, reports say.
It will be up to two months before about a quarter of a
million civilians who fled the city will be able to return,
Dr Said said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces began their ground invasion of
Falluja just under three weeks ago, but massive aerial
bombardments of the city took place for weeks before that.
Troops in Falluja continue to encounter sporadic resistance.
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