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Images from the shelling of the UNIFIL FIJI BATT compound at Qana, South LebanonThursday, April 18, 1996 |
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 Dousing the fire. |
 Distraught survivor |
 Bloodied earth |
 A victim |
 Victims, journalists and UN troops |
 Proximity-fuze shelled shelter |
 An overwhelmed UN-representative |
 Carrying away the dead |
 A burnt out shelter |
 Putting out the fire |
 Carrying out the dead |
 The Qana compund |
 Entrance to the Qana compound |
 Burning shelters |
 Mourning a victim |
 A burning shelter |
 Fiji Batt has been at Qana since 1978 |
 Victims |
 Victims |
 Victims |
 Victims |
 Some victims were unrecognizable |
 Result of proximity-fuze shelling |
 The compund is in the village of Qana |
 The baby victim |
 Gathering the remains |
 Putting out the fire |
 Carrying out wounded |
 Seasoned journalists |
 Wounded on the hospital floor in Tyre |
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Film: (RAM - 80 kbps) (RAM - 300 kbps) On Tuesday April 18, 1996 Israeli 155mm howitzers shelled UIFIL's Fiji BATT compound in the village of Qana a few kilometers south east of Tyre. Around 800 civilians had taken refuge at the base. Israelis targeted the base in retaliation for the Hizballah attack on one of their special forces groups who were in action north and outside of the Iraeli occupied "security zone" laying landmines. Over 100 civilians were killed.
The shelling is documented in a UN report discussed in Time Magazine's
article Qana:
Anatomy of a Tragedy by James Walsh.
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