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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A800AA57-C2A4-47FB-9BB5-6D6E1B9C3C22.htm
US shells Falluja, turns back aid convoy
Monday 15 November 2004, 15:14 Makka Time, 12:14 GMT    
 
The Shuhada district is the latest area facing intense US assault
 
Fresh fighting has broken out in the Iraqi city of Falluja after US
forces attacked suspected resistance targets with air strikes,
artillery and mortar rounds and an aid convoy was forced to turn back.
US forces said they targeted a fortified underground bunker with
reinforced tunnels leading to stores of weapons, including an
anti-aircraft artillery gun. 
At least five artillery rounds and air strikes hit the southern
portion of the city, and soon afterwards exchanges of gunfire and
blasts could be heard.
US forces also launched sporadic mortar rounds against targets
overnight. 
In a statement, the military said it was clearing remaining spots of
resistance and removing stores of weapons from buildings. 
"One mission early on 15 November attacked a bunker complex in the
southernmost unpopulated section of Falluja after multi-national
forces discovered an underground bunker and steel- reinforced
tunnels," the statement said. 
"The tunnels connected a ring of facilities filled with weapons, an
anti-aircraft artillery gun, bunk beds, a truck and a suspected
weapons cache." 
Aid turned back
Tank commanders said late on Sunday the Shuhada district in the south
of the city, the last resistance stronghold, still had a significant
number of armed fighters. 
 
Children are among the casualties
in the military offensive 
 
At the same time, relief agencies are trying to get food, water and
medicine to hundreds of families they say are trapped inside Falluja.
The military said it was announcing over loudspeakers in the city that
civilians needing medical or other help should seek out US forces. 
But a convoy of aid from Iraq's Red Crescent withdrew from a hospital
on the edge of Falluja on Monday, after failing to get permission to
deliver supplies to residents inside the city, a spokeswoman said.
 
The trucks laden with food, water and medical supplies would travel
instead to villages around Falluja where tens of thousands of people
have set up camp after fleeing the massive week-old offensive
spearheaded by US marines, said Red Crescent spokeswoman Firdus
al-Ubadi. 
Humanitarian crisis
A spokesman for the Shura Council of the Falluja Mujahidin told
Aljazeera some families had been without water, food and electricity
for the past five days. He said US forces were restricting the relief
groups to one area. 
"We plead to the conscience of the Islamic world for help," said Abu
Saad al-Dulaimi. 
 
US soldiers 'beat hospital staff', 
claim Falluja medical staff
 
"There are massacres in Falluja, there are assassinations, only
because the city's people are protecting their honour and dignity." 
Asma Khamis al-Muhannadi, an assistant doctor who witnessed the US and
Iraqi National Guards raid into Falluja hospital told Aljazeera that
the medical staff received threats from the Iraqi health minister who
said if anyone disclosed information about the raid, they would be
arrested or dismissed from their jobs. 
"We were tied up and beaten despite being unarmed and having only our
medical instruments," al-Muhannadi said. 
 
"The hospital was targeted by bombs and rockets. I was with a woman in
labour. The umbilical cord had not yet been cut. At that time, a US
solider shouted at one of the national guards to arrest me and tie my
hands while I was helping the mother to deliver. I will never forget
this incidence in my life," the assistant doctor said. 
 
"I am from Falluja and I work there. They claimed I was a fighter and
stole our money and mobile phones," she said.  
 
Patients targeted
 
"The troops dragged patients from their beds and pushed them towards
the wall. There were 17 injured people among the patients,"
al-Muhannadi said.
 
Many child refugees were taken
for treatment in Baghdad
 
 "We exited from the hospital on the second day of the attack, but we
could not return as the main Falluja-Saqlawiya junction was controlled
by the US troops.  We saw around 150 women, children and the elderly
attacked by aircraft fire," she said. 
"All of us were subject to intense inspection; the soldiers even
examined children's diapers. Two female doctors were forced to totally
undress,"  al-Muhannadi said.

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