Word: hizballah
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...sacrifice and martyrdom," he says. In 1996, the massacre at the UN base in Qana galvanized the West to arrange a ceasefire. But few residents here appear to hold out much hope that the fighting will end soon, blaming the US for its support for Israel's onslaught against Hizballah. "They talk about a new Middle East," Mohammed says. "We saw what they meant by that in Iraq and now we are seeing it in Lebanon...
...hard to see how Rice can make any more progress here toward her goal of a compreshensive agreement between the Israeli and Lebanese governments, which include cessation of hostilities, the deployment of the Lebanese Army backed by a ?robust? international force to secure the border with israel and push Hizballah back so that its short range rockets cannot strike Israel...
...Lebanese side, the various factions, including Hizballah, had made a breakthrough of sorts last week by agreeing to back the Siniora government as its single representative in any negotiations. Indeed, even after Sunday?s incident at Qana, Dr. Mohammad Chatah, senior advisor to the Prime Minister told Time that ?nothing has changed as far as the position of the government on the underlying issues.? However, the Qana incident was a ?war crime.? Said Chatah, ?You cannot fight a war by killing civilians. We want this to end. And it can end. Our plan is still...
...Qana was once famous in Lebanon as the site of the biblical wedding feast where Jesus turned water into wine. But in the past 10 years, this meandering hill village has become synonymous with bloodshed and misery. In April 1996, during ?Israeli "Grapes of Wrath" campaign to destroy Hizballah guerrillas, Israeli artillery gunners shelled a United Nations base in the village, killing more than 100 civilians sheltering there. The cemetery where the victims are buried has become a national shrine, and it lies barely five minutes walk from the crushed ruins of the Hashem house...
...three-story structures had once existed. "There is no resistance here, they are fighting Israeli soldiers on the border. There are only civilians here, women and children," says Ibrahim Shalhoub, 26, another of the survivors who was helping recover bodies. Israel, for its part, claimed Sunday that Hizballah had been firing rockets for the last few days from Qana...