French Ship Aids Lebanese Victims
A motor launch ferried 70 wounded Muslims to a French naval hospital ship today in a mission to bring aid to Lebanon’s war-scarred civilians.
The ship, La Rance, lying about three miles off the port of Sidon, has already treated 14 Christians, most of whom were subsequently flown to hospitals in the Paris area.
“I hope the war will end soon, because if the shelling continues, all Lebanese will be among the dead or wounded,” said Moustafa Itani, a 24-year-old civil defense worker suffering from serious leg wounds.
The casualties are victims of five weeks of the most ferocious artillery exchanges of Lebanon’s 14-year civil war.
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