BEIRUT (Reuters) - Aid began flowing into south Lebanon on Monday hours after a U.N.-brokered ceasefire came into effect to end a conflict that killed over 1,200 people and drove almost one million from their homes.
The U.N.'s World Food Programme sent 24 trucks of food, medicine and shelter material to the southern port of Tyre and other aid groups prepared to help tens of thousands of refugees expected to head south in the next few days.
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