Скачать или смотреть Aid going into Beddawi refugee camp

(26 May 2007)
1. Wide of entrance to Beddawi camp
2. Sign reading (in Arabic) "Beddawi Camp welcomes you"
3. People walking along street
4. United Arab Emirates trucks loaded with supplies and mattresses
5. Pan from United Arab Emirates flag on back of truck to another truck
6. Various of trucks loaded with aid
7. Palestinian man distributing flags and flowers to children
8. Various of Red Crescent tents
9. Various of Red Crescent distributing bread to refugees
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wissam Nameh, Red Crescent volunteer:
"We try to cover all the people's needs. What we do now is provide people with the meals, lunch meal, dinner meal, breakfast meal."
11. Various of refugees outside school
STORYLINE:
Six aid trucks donated by the United Arab Emirates arrived in the Beddawi camp in Northern Lebanon on Saturday, in order to help Palestinian refugees who fled from the violence in Nahr al-Bared camp.
AP Television showed the trucks piled high with aid.
Red Crescent volunteers set up tents and shelters and also distributed bread and meals to the refugees.
Wissam Nameh, a Red Crescent volunteer said, "we try to cover all the people's needs."
''What we do now is provide people with the meals, lunch meal, dinner meal, breakfast meal,'' he added.
About half of Nahr el-Bared's population of 31-thousand have fled the camp ahead of a possible army assault to crush al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded inside.
Sporadic gunfire at Nahr el-Bared camp kept tensions high, but a truce that has halted three days of heavy artillery and rocket bombardment since Tuesday held.
Palestinian factions were scrambling to find a negotiated solution to end the siege and avert what many fear would be a bloody battle over Nahr el-Bared, where thousands of civilians remain in the line of fire.
The military was gearing up for a fight, rolling more troops into place around the camp in northern Lebanon, already ringed by hundreds of soldiers backed by artillery and tanks.
Fatah Islam has claimed to have over 500 fighters, armed with automatic weapons, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
An all-out assault on the camp would risk sparking unrest and violence elsewhere in the country, where some 400-thousand Palestinian refugees live, most in camps that are rife with armed groups.

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