As soon as the ceasefire was implemented, many families started packing their belongings and left. So half of the 2 schools we usually visit were already empty. Today there’s nobody left and apparently this goes for all the other centers, schools and public gardens were the displaced used to live. The army warned not to go back immediately, knowing that several rockets did not explode yet. It is very dangerous in those attacked areas both in the South and in the Southern suburbs.
As for the displaced staying with their relatives in their houses, many of them are still here. So we have to discern how to plan the post war stategy. Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. I just came from Mass and World vision called if I could open Ayadina premises; they have stock to put. There will be another distribution on Friday as planned.

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August 15, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Rosita
Dag Annie,
het is een “hoog-dag” vandaag. Ik moet dan denken aan de reis naar Polen die ik maakte (ben van zondagavond terug) en daar gezien dat oorlog waanzin is, de lidtekens zijn daar nog steeds aanwezig, bij de mensen, de gebouwen… . En : al die mensen die daar vernietigd zijn door de nazi’s in de vernietigingskampen …. en dat nu in het midden-Oosten daar nu nog steeds de gevolgen van zijn… .
Ongelooflijk en schrijnend wat mensen mekaar aandoen.. We hopen en bidden dat het geweld moet stoppen.
Veel sterkte en groetjes
Rosita
August 15, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Dona
All people have the right to return to their home if they are still there, but from the way I see it, it is not good. From my observation, it is the people who support huzbellah and haraket amal are returning, and not yet any christian. I am afraid they are using these people, they don’t think of their safety as others do. I think they are being obliged to go back now. I am not sure and don’t know why…