U.N. Special Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Egeland announced Friday that he would be flying to the Middle East immediately to press for cooperation on his “humanitarian corridor” plan to safely deliver ships, supplies, and workers, to ease the plight of the Lebanese people. Egeland's land, sea, and air plan would be to truck humanitarian convoys from Aarida, a northern border town, through the still-accessible coastal road south to Beirut. The sea plan would be to create three safe harbors for relief supply shipments in the north, at Tripoli, in the center, at Beirut, and in the south, at Tyre. The air corridor would involve the heavily-bombed Rafik Hariri airport in Beirut. At least one of the two runways would need to be repaired in order to receive cargo planes.
