Qana's victims
The first report that covered the massacre:
Qana, Thursday April 18, 1996
In the bloodiest attack by far on this eighth day of Israeli aggression, over 105 civilians
were massacred after Israeli artillery pounded a UNIFIL warehouse packed with
refugees. The hundreds of men, women and children were seeking shelter from Israeli
bombardment with the U.N.
in the village of Qana. U.N. spokesman Timur Goksel said
the U.N. station, manned by Fijian troops, came under fierce attack this afternoon. The
U.N. is airlifting by helicopter the dead and injured to hospitals in nearby Tyre and
further up the coast to Sidon. Details remain sketchy because U.N. officials at the main
administrative offices at Naqora are reporting communication problems with their Fijian
battalion and the road in the area is closed because of heavy Israeli shelling.
Once again,
over 100 Lebanese civilians are dead tonight as a result of Israeli missile attacks on a
refugee center at a United Nations' peace keeping base in the village of Qana, southeast
of Tyre. Foreign Minister Ehud Barak (he is now the peace-loving PM of Israel) has said Israel would continue the bombardment
despite the massacre.
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