Venezuela will deliver to Lebanon more than 20 tons of humanitarian aid,
coordinated by the country's Foreign Ministry and the Disasters and Civil
Protection Administration (DCPA), the DCPA said on Monday.
The DCPA national director, Antonio Rivero, said food, drinking water and
medicines would be sent using the same Boeing 707 and Conviasa 737-300 of the
Air Force, which repatriated more than 500 Venezuelans fleeing Israel's
bombardment of Lebanon.
Doctors and paramedics will travel with the aid.
"This is the aid that we have been requested due to the armed conflict in the
Middle East," Rivero told reporters at Simon Bolivar International Airport in
Maiquetia, just outside the capital Caracas.
More than 920 people have died since July 12, when Israel started a campaign
of airstrikes after the Lebanon-based guerilla group, Hezbollah, kidnapped two
Israeli soldiers and killed eight others.
