Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/humanitarian-aid-efforts-in-lebanon-continue-on-slow-path Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript International agencies are providing relief aid to the estimated 700,000 Lebanese civilians displaced by the recent crisis. Israel opened four humanitarian corridors into Lebanon on Tuesday for relief agencies to provide food and medicine to those in need. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: Shipments of food and relief supplies have begun trickling into south Lebanon and Beirut. The deliveries by ship and aircraft followed Israel's decision to open four humanitarian corridors to Lebanon.But more than 700,000 Lebanese have been displaced by Israeli bombing, and roads and bridges have been destroyed, adding to the problems of delivering food and medicine.For more now we turn to Simon Schorno, a Washington representative for the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to Neal Keny-Guyer, chief executive officer of Mercy Corps, an international relief and development agency based in Portland, Oregon.Mr. Keny-Guyer, are there signs yet for your group that these so-called humanitarian corridors have helped with the flow of aid? NEAL KENY-GUYER, Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps: Not anything significant yet. It's, frankly, too early to tell. As your reporter pointed out, there were some trickles of boat loads of supplies that got in today. There's more lined up on the way, we understand.But still the humanitarian corridors are much more in the conceptual stage, and the details need to be worked out so that humanitarian access can flow to people in need, freely and in security. JEFFREY BROWN: What about for the Red Cross, Mr. Schorno?SIMON SCHORNO, International Committee of the Red Cross: Well, for the International Red Cross, we've been to have convoys, (inaudible) convoys last week already on the ground. And so our principle is to work independently, and so we have done our own intervention with the Israeli authorities in order to secure passage for Red Cross convoys.And of course, we welcome the creation of those humanitarian corridors, and it's certainly a great signal, but we have been working independently of that to secure our own staff safe passage.