Beirut, Lebanon: The ongoing Hezbollah-Israel conflict in Lebanon is a human catastrophe with hundreds of civilians reported dead, thousands injured and hundreds of thousands displaced. The Lebanese Red Cross Society, through the efforts of its volunteers, continues to help the most vulnerable. A report from ICRC's Marko Kokic and Ayad Al Mounzer of the Lebanese Red Cross.  Read article

Beirut, Lebanon: Volunteers and aid workers helping displaced people in Lebanon say that media is not showing the "depths of humanitarian crisis" resulting from the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.  Read article

Syrians are opening their houses, shops and restaurants to refugees of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Restaurants are giving food to shelters, individuals have turned up with food and mattresses, hairdressers are giving free haircuts and shaves, and more than 7,000 Syrian families have offered to take refugees into their homes.  Read article

Tyre, Lebanon: Israeli warplanes are attacking the Lebanese Red Cross ambulances repeatedly, volunteers of the medical aid group say. It is an attempt to keep the volunteer rescue workers away from the war victims, they say.  Read article

Tyre, Lebanon: A volunteer in southern Lebanon tries to keep a promise to a little girl at increasing risk to his life. The 25-year old from the port city of Tyre promised Rayan Finjan that he would bring home the bodies of her father, mother and 15-year-old brother, killed when an Israeli missile hit the minivan they were travelling in.  Read article

Beirut, Lebanon: Brian Whitaker of the Guardian finds that volunteers – local citizens and staff of NGOs – are taking the initiative to keep a semblance of normal life in the Lebanese capital. Their efforts may seem chaotic but they are highly organized in providing relief.  Read article

Homs, Syria: Volunteers in the central Syrian city of Homs are helping the people evacuating from Lebanon to cope with the situation by providing them daily rations of food, medicines and other supplies.  Read article

Beirut, Lebanon: More than 5,000 Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and staff, working under increasingly dangerous and life-threatening situations, continue to evacuate the wounded and distribute essential relief and medicines to displaced families.   Read article

Beirut, Lebanon: Fleeing the apocalyptic scene in the south, thousands of Lebanese Shiites have found solace in Beirut's Christian neighbourhoods whose residents raced to accommodate and cater for the shell-shocked evacuees.  Read article

Tyre, Lebanon: Two ambulances rescuing injured people were destroyed in Israeli air strikes in Tyre in south Lebanon, forcing the Lebanese Red Cross to halt all rescue missions. This has left 100,000 people of Tyre district with no way of reaching hospital other than to take to the roads themselves, under the roar of Israeli war planes.  Read article