The truth keeps getting clearer
The Red Cross is reporting that there were no Hezbollah rockets fired from Qana’ before the Israeli air strike, and that amigos make what the Israelis did genocide and a war crime.
Masen Hashen, a 30-year-old construction worker from Qana who lost several family members in the air strike on the shelter, said there were no Hezbollah rockets fired from his village. “Because if they had done that now, or in the past, all of us would have left. Because we know we would be bombed.”
Qana had been a shelter because no rockets were being fired from there, survivors said. “When Hezbollah fires their rockets, everyone runs away because they know an Israeli bombardment will come soon,” Abdel said. “That is why everyone stayed in the shelter and nearby homes, because we all thought we’d be all right since there were no Hezbollah fighters in Qana.”
Lebanese Red Cross workers in the nearby coastal city of Tyre told IPS that there was no basis for Israeli claims that Hezbollah had launched rockets from Qana.
“We found no evidence of Hezbollah fighters in Qana,” Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic and training manager for the Red Cross in Tyre told IPS at their headquarters. “When we rescue people or recover bodies from villages, we usually see rocket launchers or Hezbollah fighters if they are there, but in Qana I can say that the village was 100 percent clear of either of those.”
Another Red Cross worker, 32-year-old Mohammad Zatar, told IPS that “we can tell when Hezbollah has been firing rockets from certain areas, because all of the people run away, on foot if they have to.”
Comment from M. Douglas Wray
Time: 8/1/2006, 9:51 pm
The attacks on Lebanon are just barbaric. Trying to make up excuses is even more disgusting. This is as bad as the Bosnian ethnic cleansing. God have mercy on the Israelli’s souls - they’ll NEED it. Good grief. Everyone in the world is screaming for a ceasefire and we stand there grinning with handfuls of clips. What does Cheney do for entertainment? Watch the gories scenes of Fight Club on permanent loop????