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TRT World
April 20, 2018
We are sick of wars,” Chalhoub says on April 18, exactly 22 years after the first of two massacres that came to define Qana. This southern Lebanese village is Chalhoub's home. She believes its population of less than 10,000 can draw strength from its terrible past. The village has lived through enough.
JNS.org
April 18, 2018
Why, burning [people] is not very different from the collective slaughter perpetrated against the Palestinian people by Zionism over the years, starting with Deir Yassin, Qibya and Al-Dawayima, continuing with Bahr el-Baqar, Sabra and Shatila, and Qana, and dozens of other barbaric massacres in which theÃâà...
Mondoweiss
April 1, 2018
The first Qana massacre takes place when Israeli missiles strike a UN compound in southern Lebanon where many civilians have gathered seeking refuge during clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. Over 100 civilians are killed. “Israel was universally condemned, and the United States intervened toÃâà...
Egypttoday
January 5, 2018
Qaradawi stressed in the circulated video that when Israel's late Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, visited Qatar, following thr Qana massacre in 1996 in southern Lebanon, he fiercely slammed the Qatari regime and demanded, “Whoever [shook] hands with Peres to purge their hands.” Qaradawi and his sevenÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 19, 2017
QANA, SOUTHERN LEBANON (APRIL 18, 1996): It was a massacre. Not since Sabra and Chatila 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 aÃâà...
The Independent
September 28, 2016
If she is still alive – and there was to be another Qana massacre in the years to come, this time from the Israeli air force – I doubt if the word “peacemaker” will be crossing her lips. There was a UN enquiry which stated in its bland way that it did not believe the slaughter was an accident. The UN report wasÃâà...
The Independent
September 28, 2016
It was a place called Qana and most of the 106 bodies – half of them children – now lie beneath the UN camp where they were torn to pieces by Israeli shells in 1996. I had been on a UN aid convoy just outside the south Lebanese village. Those shells swished right over our heads and into the refugeesÃâà...
+972 Magazine
January 8, 2015
Yigal Sarna, a journalist for Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, published a dramatic and serious accusation over the weekend against Naftali Bennett, the head of the Jewish Home party. Bennett was the commander of a small IDF unit that operated inside the “Security Zone” that Israel occupied in SouthÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 7, 2015
Israeli economy minister Naftali Bennett is embroiled in controversy over his role in the April 1996 massacre of more than one hundred civilians and UN peacekeepers at a UN base in the village of Qana during Israel's invasion of Lebanon that year. Last week, Israeli news outlet Yediot Ahronot columnistÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
August 1, 2006
The Israeli massacre of Lebanese civilians, mainly children, in the village of Qana is a colossal war crime for which the United States government bears .... out a number of massacres of Palestinian villages in order to expel the inhabitants and expand Israeli territory beyond the borders laid down by the UN.
Center for Research on Globalization
August 1, 2006
On the 30th of July 2006, a massacre was perpetrated at the village of Qana in southern Lebanon. Ten years ago, on April 18, 1996, at the same village in Southern Lebanon, the Israeli Air force bombed and killed 106 Lebanese civilians who had taken refuge in a UN shelter inside the UNIFIL compound. The July 2006Ãâà...
BBC News
August 1, 2006
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 ... 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 - enormousÃâà...
