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In Memory of the Second Qana Massacre |
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
On the 30th of July 2006, a massacre was perpetrated at the village of Qana in southern Lebanon. More than 60 people were killed, more than half of whom were children, when Israeli warplanes bombed the village of Qana triggering global outrage and warnings of retribution for a "war crime" by world public opinion. The gravity of the crime at Qana however, was filtered down by the world's media after the massacre, following concerted rounds of misinformation propelled by certain political leaders who wished to justify acts of Israeli terrorism against innocent civilians. Ten years earlier, 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 2006 attack on Qana replicates with meticulous accuracy, the April 1996 operation, code-named "The Grapes of Wrath". The initial report concluded that the shelling of the shelter inside the UNIFIL compound by Israel was deliberate. When former UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali wished to publish these findings, he was threatened that this would cost him his job and was forced to publish a revised report. As long as this sorrowful tale of suppression of truth continues; the massacres and tragedies shall also continue.
Qana Massacre: The Tragedy Continues
30th July 2006: The Qana Massacre
Children of Qana, 1996 to 2006
Lebanon: The Memory of Qana
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