Operation Grapes of Wrath
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Operation Grapes of Wrath, known in Lebanon as the April Aggression, was a seventeen-day campaign of the Israel Defense Forces against Hezbollah in 1996 which attempted to end the Iran-backed group's
An Israeli M109 Paladin firing on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, taken on 15 April 1996
Qana massacre
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The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound, which was
Operation Grapes of Wrath
…shells, killing approximately 154 Lebanese civilians and wounding 351. Over 100 Lebanese civilians died after the IDF shelled the UNIFIL position in Qana where they had taken shelter. After the outbreak of Israel’s response, 639 Hezbollah cross-border rocket attacks targeted northern Israel, wounding 62…
UNIFIL peacekeepers remove the remains of artillery attack victims
Entrance to the UN base in Qana, 1992
Diagram from Major-General van Kappen's report to the Secretary-General of UN Boutrous Boutros-Ghali, May 7, 1996, showing the cluster of proximity fused rounds within the UN compound at Qana