What the hell

Ten years ago

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 has said Israel would continue the bombardment despite the massacre.

Today:

Red Cross: At least 56 killed in Qana strike

Beirut, July. 30 (AP): An Israeli strike that devastated a building in Qana killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, putting the total Lebanese death toll from the Israeli campaign at more than 500, the Lebanese Red Cross said.

Health Minister Muhammad Jawad Khalifeh said more than 750 Lebanese were believed dead, including more than 200 people buried in the rubble of buildings around the south or reported missing.

Israeli missiles hit a building where families had been taking refuge during the night in the southern town of Qana, making it the deadliest single strike in the Israeli campaign.

A Red Cross official said 56 bodies had been found so dar, including 34 children. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 - including 16 adult women - but could rise since digging was still continuing.

Security officials said 18 people from two families were found in a single room of the building.

The strike brings the total death toll from 18 days of Israeli-Hezbollah fighting to at least 514. Besides the Qana deaths, that number includes 403 civilians reported on Saturday by the Health Ministry, as well as 20 Lebanese soldiers and 35 guerrillas reported by the military and Hezbollah.

The abused kick downwards. Welcome world to Holocaust II. Fuck Israel.