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Titolo: US troops 'preventing aid' to Falluja

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US troops 'preventing aid' to Falluja
Sunday 14 November 2004, 12:49 Makka Time, 9:49 GMT    
 
Iraqi Red Crescent: The wounded are unable to reach hospitals
 
 
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US troops are preventing a Red Crescent convoy of emergency aid from
reaching helpless residents inside Falluja, a spokeswoman says.
Hopes were raised that the military would make an exception to a
no-entry rule when the trucks were allowed as far as the Falluja
general hospital, which was seized before a US-Iraqi assault to gain
control of the city, the spokeswoman said on Saturday.
But wounded residents inside the war zone were unable to enter the
hospital on the western outskirts, and US forces forbade the aid
convoy from reaching them, Red Crescent spokeswoman Firdus al-Ubadi
said.
Access denied
"They are in the general hospital, but until now the Americans will
not let them distribute medical supplies in the city," al-Ubadi said,
referring to the team of 50 volunteers and three doctors that had
travelled from Baghdad to Falluja. 
Doctor Jamal al-Karbuli, the secretary-general of the Iraqi Red
Crescent, "is negotiating with the Americans to let them distribute
the supplies to the people", she added.
 
Many families have fled from the
war-torn city to nearby villages
 
"Jamal is insisting, at least, to have permission to get the injured
people out of Falluja and into the hospital."
Civilians hiding in the city, where US and Iraqi troops have clashed
with the resistance since Monday, are dying of starvation and thirst
and something must be done to help them, al-Ubadi said.
"They need us. It is our duty as a humanitarian agency to do our job
for these people in these circumstances," she said.
The Iraqi government said it was evacuating wounded civilians out of
Falluja and that the main hospital would soon be operational again.
A US military spokesman said the city was too risky for the aid
workers.
"We have to take into consideration safety and security," he said.
 
Refugees badly need water and
food supplies, aid workers said
 
Refugee town struck
Late on Saturday, Aljazeera reported that the town of Amiriyat
al-Falluja - hosting about 4000 families fleeing the fighting in
Falluja - was struck by a US aerial assault, which killed five people
and injured four others.
Earlier, the Red Crescent society had despatched a convoy of four
relief trucks and an ambulance to Amiriyat al-Falluja and a tourist
village in Habbaniya - where an additional 1500 refugees are camped.
The Red Crescent believes that only 150 families are still in the
heart of Falluja, but it is concerned about the 
plight of tens of thousands of people living in refugee camps and
villages dotted outside.
"They are dying of starvation and a lack of water, especially 
the children," al-Ubadi said.
"If there is no solution to this crisis it will expand to other cities
and other parts of Iraq and there will be a great disaster here."
An AFP correspondent in Falluja said he had seen a number of 
families emerge from the devastation. 
 
US snipers target anything that
moves on the ground
 
One group among them complained on Friday of severe thirst and hunger.
Another was on the edge of despair.
Witness contradicts denials
 
 
 Local journalist in Falluja, Haza al-Afify, told Aljazeera that there
were many civilian casualties, contrary to what the US military said.
"The humanitarian situation is miserable. The US forces have cut the
electricity power supply. 
"Water-pumping operations have now stopped for good. Water pipes carry
polluted water supply. There is a severe shortage of foodstuff and
food supplies," he said.
"The US forces denial is something but the realities on the ground are
another. The US tanks and aircraft keep bombarding residents' homes
day and night. 
"The US snipers keep dominating rooftops and target everything that
moves on the ground. This is mass murder for Falluja residents," the
journalist said.
"There are scores of families buried under the rubble of destroyed
homes"
Haza al-Afify,
journalist in Falluja
 
"There are scores of families buried under the rubble of destroyed
homes. Others have bled to death. There is a stench from every street
due to decaying bodies."
"So how can I believe the US forces' allegations on what I have
witnessed by my own eyes?"
Communist killed 
Armed men have ambushed and killed a senior official of the Iraqi
Communist Party in northern Iraq, a colleague said. 
 
Four cars followed Waddah Hasan Abd al-Amir, a member of Iraq's
provisional national assembly and two of his aides, from the city of
Khalis and attacked them on Saturday evening on the road to Arbil,
Kurdistan Communist Party official Ali Zanka 
said. 
He said several others were hurt in a car crash caused by the attack. 
 
 

 
 
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telefona per sapere che scarpe indosso in quel momento. Spesso sono scalza e
devo rispondergli: Marco, mi spiace. Sono in ciabatte».
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