Venezuela will deliver to Lebanon more than 20 tons of humanitarian aid, coordinated by the country's Foreign Ministry and the Disasters and Civil Protection Administration (DCPA), the DCPA said on Monday.

The DCPA national director, Antonio Rivero, said food, drinking water and medicines would be sent using the same Boeing 707 and Conviasa 737-300 of the Air Force, which repatriated more than 500 Venezuelans fleeing Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.

Doctors and paramedics will travel with the aid.

"This is the aid that we have been requested due to the armed conflict in the Middle East," Rivero told reporters at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, just outside the capital Caracas.

More than 920 people have died since July 12, when Israel started a campaign of airstrikes after the Lebanon-based guerilla group, Hezbollah, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others.

Source: Xinhua