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The Qana Massacre took place on April 18, 1996 in Qana, a small village in the south of Lebanon, in which the Israeli Defense Force shelled the United Nations headquarters, killing 102 civilians.
The attack was part of an Israeli operation named "Grapes of Wrath".
Robert Fisk, a British journalist for The Independent, was among the first to arrive to there. He wrote:
- 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 a hundred of them. A baby lay without a head [...] Like the Muslims of Srebrenica, the Muslims of Qana were wrong [...] The blood of all the refugees ran quite literally in streams from the shell-smashed UN compound [...] 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.
