Israel’s massacre in Qana, Lebanon: A survivor speaks

On October 24, 2023, as Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continued to exchange fire in south Lebanon, Dimitri Lascaris travelled to the Lebanon-Israel border from Beirut. On his way to the border, he stopped in the village of Qana. The Israeli military committed two massacres in Qana, one in 1996 and another in 2006. In the first of these atrocities, Israeli forces deliberately shelled a United Nations compound in Qana, killing over 100 civilians and wounding hundreds more. These civilians had sought refuge at the compound after Israeli forces starting bombing their villages as part of “Operation Grapes of Wrath”. On October 24, while visiting the site of the Qana massacre, Lascaris interviewed a 55-year old survivor of the 1996 massacre.