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

Volunteers are assisting the officials at American airports to receive and welcome citizens being evacuated from Lebanon in the middle of the hostilities between Israel and the Hezbollah group.  Read article

Tyre, Lebanon: Despite warnings to flee from the Israeli military, some residents in the port city of Tyre, 25 kilometres from the border, are stubbornly refusing to go. The local residents and volunteers are determined to stay and do their jobs.  Read article

Volunteers and staff of the International Medical Corps are providing essential medical supplies in and around Tyre, supporting a hospital and four Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon.   Read article

Ain El-Hilweh, Lebanon: Palestinians living in Lebanon's biggest refugee camp in the southern part of the country have turned from downtrodden refugees to generous hosts as they offer shelter to Lebanese families fleeing Israeli bombardment.  Read article