Robert
Fisk Was At Qana -
http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/robert_fisk_qana.html [
18 April 1996 ]
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Qana, southern Lebanon
It was a
massacre. Not since
Sabra and Shatila had I seen the innocent slaughtered like
this. The Lebanese refugee women and children and men lay in heaps, their hands
or arms or legs missing, beheaded or disembowelled. There were well over a
hundred of them. A baby lay without a head. The Israeli shells had scythed
through them as they lay in the United Nations shelter, believing that they were
safe under the world's protection. Like the Muslims of Srebrenica, the Muslims
of Qana were wrong.
In front of a burning building of the UN's Fijian battalion headquarters, a girl
held a corpse in her arms, the body of a grey- haired man whose eyes were
staring at her, and she rocked the corpse back and forth in her arms, keening
and weeping and crying the same words over and over: "My father, my father." A
Fijian UN soldier stood amid a sea of bodies and, without saying a word, held
aloft the body of a headless child.
"The Israelis have just told us they'll stop shelling the area", a UN soldier
said, shaking with anger. "Are we supposed to thank them?" In the remains of a
burning building - the conference room of the Fijian UN headquarters - a pile of
corpses was burning. The roof had crashed in flames onto their bodies, cremating
them in front of my eyes. When I walked towards them, I slipped on a human
hand...
Israel's slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive - 206 by last
night - has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive
this massacre. There had been the ambulance attacked on Saturday, the sisters
killed in Yohmor the day before, the 2-year-old girl decapitated by an Israeli
missile four days ago. And earlier yesterday, the Israelis had slaughtered a
family of 12 - the youngest was a four- day-old baby - when Israeli helicopter
pilots fired missiles into their home.
Shortly afterwards, three Israeli jets dropped bombs only 250 metres from a UN
convoy on which I was travelling, blasting a house 30 feet into the air in front
of my eyes. Travelling back to Beirut to file my report on the Qana massacre to
the Independent last night, I found two Israeli gunboats firing at the civilian
cars on the river bridge north of Sidon.
Every foreign army comes to grief in Lebanon. The
Sabra and Shatila Massacre of
Palestinians by Israel's militia allies in 1982 doomed Israel's 1982 invasion.
Now the Israelis are stained again by the bloodbath at Qana, the scruffy little
Lebanese hill town where the Lebanese believe Jesus turned water into wine.
The Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres may now wish to end this war. But the
Hizbollah are not likely to let him. Israel is back in the Lebanese quagmire.
Nor will the Arab world forget yesterday's terrible scenes.
The blood of all the refugees ran quite literally in streams from the
shell-smashed UN compound restaurant in which the Shiite Muslims from the hill
villages of southern Lebanon - who had heeded Israel's order to leave their
homes - had pathetically sought shelter. Fijian and French soldiers heaved
another group of dead - they lay with their arms tightly wrapped around each
other - into blankets.
A French UN trooper muttered oaths to himself as he opened a bag in which he was
dropping feet, fingers, pieces of people's arms. And as we walked through this
obscenity, a swarm of people burst into the compound. They had driven in wild
convoys down from Tyre and began to pull the blankets off the mutilated corpses
of their mothers and sons and daughters and to shriek "Allahu Akbar" (God is
Great") and to threaten the UN troops.
We had suddenly become not UN troops and journalists but Westerners, Israel's
allies, an object of hatred and venom. One bearded man with fierce eyes stared
at us, his face dark with fury. "You are Americans", he screamed at us.
"Americans are dogs. You did this. Americans are dogs."
President Bill Clinton has allied himself with
Israel in its war against
"terrorism" and the Lebanese, in their grief, had not forgotten this. Israel's
official expression of sorrow was rubbing salt in their wounds. "I would like to
be made into a bomb and blow myself up amid the Israelis", one old man said.
As for the Hizbollah, which has repeatedly promised that Israelis will pay for
their killing of Lebanese civilians, its revenge cannot be long in coming.
Operation Grapes of Wrath may then turn out then to be all too aptly named.
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This was the one that caused
Osama bin Laden
to have a go. He brought us the 9/11 Job - allegedly.
IDF inquiry into
Qana a whitewash
www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/073/2006
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The investigation carried out by the Israeli
Defence Force (IDF) into the air-missile attack on Qana was clearly
inadequate and reinforces the need for the urgent dispatch of the
International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC).
"We cannot allow any investigation into the events in Qana to be a whitewash. What is needed here is an independent investigation which can look at all credible reports of serious violations of international humanitarian law taking place in this conflict. Any investigation needs the capacity to cross borders and talk to survivors of the attack as well as to the forces involved," said Kate Gilmore, Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. "It is not enough that the Israeli army investigates themselves. Israel has a history of either not investigating civilian deaths, or conducting similarly flawed inquiries."
The results of the IDF investigation state that the IDF "operated according to information that the building was not inhabited by civilians". Yet survivors of the attack interviewed by Amnesty International researchers in Qana shortly after the bombing, stated that they had been in the building for some two weeks and that their presence must have been known to Israeli forces whose surveillance drones frequently flew over the village.
Amnesty International declared that issuing warnings to the civilian population to leave the area does not absolve Israel of their responsibilities under customary international humanitarian law. Intentionally launching a disproportionate or indiscriminate attack, or intentionally directing attacks at civilians or civilian objects is a war crime. Amnesty International stated that the concept of �free-fire� zones is incompatible with international humanitarian law.
Note to editors
Amnesty International is calling on the parties to agree for the urgent
dispatch of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC),
established under Article 90 of Protocol I relating to the Protection of
Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I ), to investigate
incidents where serious violations of the Geneva Conventions and the
Protocol are alleged to have taken place. Scrutiny by the IHFFC will be
essential to establish the facts independently and authoritatively. It can
also act as a deterrent against further abuses by the parties to the
conflict.
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Amnesty International was set up by
Jews. In this case they are entirely likely to be telling the truth about
their brethren. Zionist crazies
have a contemptuous indifference to honesty.
Qana makes
grim history again [ 30 Jul 2006 ]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228554.stm
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The southern Lebanese town of Qana is believed by some to be where Jesus
performed his first miracle, at the wedding in Cana of Galilee mentioned in
the Gospel of St John.
But in modern times it is blood - not water and wine -
that is indelibly linked with the town, the blood of Lebanese civilians
killed in Israeli bombing. In 1996, one of the deadliest single events of the whole
Arab-Israeli conflict took place there - the shelling of a UN base where
hundreds of local people were sheltering. More than 100 were killed and another 100 injured, cut
down by Israeli anti-personnel shells that explode in the air sending a
lethal shower of shrapnel to the ground. Ten years later, the town is again in the headlines, this
time because of a single massive bomb dropped by an Israeli aircraft,
causing a building to collapse on top of dozens of civilians - many of them
children - taking cover in the basement. Both incidents took place during sustained Israeli
military operations against the Hezbollah militant group for firing rockets
at Israel. It remains to be seen if the
"Qana Massacre No 2" - as
it's being called in Lebanon - will have the same result as the 1996 tragedy
- enormous pressure on Israel to curtail its operations, leading to a
ceasefire.
Israeli denials
Israel still insists the 18 April 1996 shelling was an
accident and that its forces had aimed at a legitimate militant target - a
Hezbollah military unit firing mortars and rockets from near a base housing
Fijian troops belonging to the UN observer force Unifil......
[Note: The number of people killed in the Israeli
bombing of Qana was later revised. The Washington based human rights group
Human Rights Watch investigated the incident and issued a report on 3 August
saying that 28 people were known to have died, while 13 people were
missing.]
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Utterly shameless lies are just one part
of their style. But anyone who says they are lying about their
Holocaust®
story
and the billions they have made out of it is at risk of going to prison for
their pains.
The Second Qana Massacre - Photographic Evidence of Israeli Crimes 55 civilians including 27 children
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2859
Qana Massacre 1 ex Wiki
The Wiki says Jews murdered 106 civilians there in 1996
The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana massacre[1][2] or the second Qana massacre[3][4]) was an air strike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story[5] building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. 28 civilians were killed, of which 16 were children.[6][7] Israel halted air strikes for 48 hours following the attack, amid increasing calls for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.[8]
Initial media reports stated that more than 50 people, including 37 children, had died,[9][10] although later reports revised this to a lower figure of 28, including 16 children, with 13 people reported missing.[11][12] Residents dug through the rubble with their hands, searching for survivors as bodies were removed. Video broadcast by Arab TV showed the bloodied bodies of women and children who appeared to be wearing nightclothes.[9][13]
The
Israel Defence Forces (IDF), although it admitted striking the building,
initially denied that the explosion that caused the mass deaths were the
result of their attack. This was contested by Qana's residents, who said the
building collapsed due to the Israeli bombing.[14]
According to the IDF, the bombing was an attempt to stop
Katyusha rockets supposedly being fired by Hezbollah into northern
Israel from the village over a two-week period[15]
and said residents were warned to leave.[16]
International observers and journalists said there was no evidence the
building served any military purpose.[17]
Lebanese Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora accused Israel of
war crimes and asked, "Why, we wonder, did they choose Qana yet again?",[18]
in reference to
an artillery shelling carried out by Israeli forces that killed over 100
civilians at a UN compound 10 years before.[19]
Kofi
Annan urged the
United Nations Security Council to condemn the attack.
Show these pictures off at your local synagogue and see their pride or
denials.
Qana Massacre II ex Wiki
The Wiki admits to 28 dead in
2006. It is not the first #Qana Massacre
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The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006
Qana massacre[1][2]
or the second Qana massacre[3][4])
was an air strike carried out by the
Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story[5]
building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the
South Lebanese village of
Qana on July
30, 2006, during the
2006 Lebanon War. 28 civilians were killed, of which 16 were children.[6][7]
Israel
halted air strikes for 48 hours following the attack, amid increasing calls
for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and
Lebanon's
Hezbollah guerrillas.[8]
Initial media reports stated that more than 50 people, including 37 children, had died,[9][10] although later reports revised this to a lower figure of 28, including 16 children, with 13 people reported missing.[11][12] Residents dug through the rubble with their hands, searching for survivors as bodies were removed. Video broadcast by Arab TV showed the bloodied bodies of women and children who appeared to be wearing nightclothes.[9][13]
The
Israel Defence Forces (IDF), although it admitted striking the building,
initially denied that the explosion that caused the mass deaths were the
result of their attack. This was contested by Qana's residents, who said the
building collapsed due to the Israeli bombing.[14]
According to the IDF, the bombing was an attempt to stop
Katyusha rockets supposedly being fired by Hezbollah into northern
Israel from the village over a two-week period[15]
and said residents were warned to leave.[16]
International observers and journalists said there was no evidence the
building served any military purpose.[17]
Lebanese Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora accused Israel of
war crimes and asked, "Why, we wonder, did they choose Qana yet again?",[18]
in reference to
an artillery shelling carried out by Israeli forces that killed over 100
civilians at a UN compound 10 years before.[19]
Kofi
Annan urged the
United Nations Security Council to condemn the attack.[18]
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Even the Wiki's summary makes Jews look bad. The truth is that they are
vicious mass murderers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Cannon_fire.JPG M109
with 155 main armament.
