A remarkable thing is happening in the blogging community (please don’t make me say blogosphere … yuck) in Beirut and Northern Israel. First-hand accounts of a humanitarian crisis, painfully real, are being posted to the web in real time.
While most blogs are written by “citizen journalists,” I have become addicted to the Yahoo News Sponsored blog by Kevin Sites titled “Hot Zone.” I have been reading it ever since he posted on a clinic my organization helps fund on the Thai-Myanmar border. Kevin has been on a mission to report from every war zone in the world in one year, and he’s currently posting from Lebanon.
His mission is to put a human face on global conflict by telling the personal stories of citizens/families caught in the crossfire … powerful stuff … and well written with photographs and video.
He has been posting from Lebanon for two days, and while most of the blog comments (around 600 total so far for his first post from the region) take sides in the conflict and place blame, my thoughts are with the children …