sourceBEIRUT, Lebanon - Bombed-out roads and traffic jams slowed the delivery of humanitarian relief to south Lebanon after Monday's cease-fire, and many aid workers were stuck on roads alongside the refugees they were trying to help.
Bridges and roads throughout Lebanon were bombed over the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah, and on Monday civil defense workers constructed a makeshift bridge over the Litani River using mud and stones.
The United Nations sent 24 trucks from Sidon across the Litani River to Tyre, carrying food, water and medical supplies on a trip that would normally take 45 minutes. It took more than five hours Monday, said Astrid van Genderen Stort, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Lebanon.
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