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
UNIFIL peacekeepers remove the remains of artillery attack victims
Entrance to the UN base in Qana, 1992
IDF 155 mm cannon bombarding the Lebanese soil, April 1996
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
Naftali Bennett is an Israeli politician, businessman, and soldier who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022, and as the alternate prime minister from July to November 2022. Bennett
Qana massacre
…a different mission. Israel rejected the findings of the UN report concerning the incident. The incident would attract attention in later years after Naftali Bennett, the commander of the Israeli commando unit which had called in the barrage, entered politics, eventually becoming Prime Minister of Israel. In April…
Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (right) with Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked (above center), Minister of Culture Miri Regev (left), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (below center)
Bennett with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper in February 2020
Bennett and his Cabinet with President Reuven Rivlin, June 2021