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Friday, April 19. 1996
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Israeli attack kills 75 refugees
The Associated Press
QANA, Lebanon — Israeli shells killed at least 75 Lebanese refugees yesterday, filling a U.N. camp with blood, horror and survivors' cries for revenge.
Israel admitted an "unfortunate mistake" in the attack, which seemed certain to deepen the hatreds of the Middle East. The carnage, which left bodies torn apart, was the worst since Israel began its onslaught against Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
While expressing regret for the civilians' deaths, Israel fiercely defended its Lebanon campaign and said the shells had been aimed at Hezbollah rocket launchers.
President Clinton called for a cease-fire by all parties to the fighting and ordered Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the region to mediate. Israel said it would accept a cease-fire if others agreed to it, a move that would leave Israel short of its goal of shutting down the Hezbollah war machine.
The Israeli attack left the U.N. base littered with butchered and headless bodies, shredded clothing and scraps of building materials. Badly wounded people were rushed to a hospital, where angry civilians attacked three Hezbollah members, beating them with sticks and chairs and accusing them of being Lebanon's source of misery.
Timur Goksel, representative for the 4,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, confirmed that 75 people died in the Qana attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said, "I'm pained by every person, every woman, every child, who is being killed."
Knight-Ridder Tribune
But he said Israel had to defend its
The United Nations said that shortly before the Israeli shells landed, Hezbollah guerrillas about 300 yards from the U.N. compound had fired two Katyusha rockets and eight mortar rounds at the Israelis. The Israeli shells apparently were in retaliation for that fire but missed their target.
Unlike the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who fled north when Israel warned that it would attack their villages, the 6,000 refugees at U.N. bases had elected to stay, believing they were safe among the peacekeepers. About 500 refugees were at the base in Qana.
citizens, and he accused the Iranianbacked guerrillas of Hezbollah of hiding behind civilians.
Refuge children were playing outside, watched by their parents from a grass hut when the first of five 155-mm howitzer shells slammed into the U.N. base.
As the smoke cleared from the
compound, dozens of victims lay on the ground in pools of blood, their bodies cut to pieces by shrapnel. Peacekeepers broke down in tears as they covered the dead.
More than 100 people were wounded, including four soldiers from the Fjlian force at Qana, eight miles southeast of the port city of Tyre, Goksel said.
An exact death toll was difficult to determine because casualties were spread around several hospitals, and many of those killed in Qana had been blown apart.
"My white rubber shoes have turned red from the blood," said a shaken Hassan Seklawi, a Lebanese working as liaison officer for the U.N. peacekeeping force who arrived at the base shortly after the shells exploded.
The shelling followed a meeting yesterday between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who announced they would resume their peacemaking and begin talks on a final settlement. Immediately after the attack, Peres placed the blame on Lebanese guerrillas and said that Israel had an obligation to defend itself against guerrilla strikes.
Later yesterday, however, Israel's army radio reported that Israel had agreed to a cease-fire as called by the United States on condition that Syria and Lebanon commit to restrain Hezbollah.
"I had to walk over bodies that covered the walkways at the base," he said.
News of yesterday's shelling first was transmitted from the base.
"We're under fire," said a radio operator, his voice choking. "Shells are landing on headquarters. People are dying here."
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