Maps Expose Israeli Claims on Qana Massacre
by Eamonn McCann, 2007.
An aerial photo released by the Israeli army to justify their attack on Qana shows a rocket launch site in a field outside the village (bottom).
The Israelis claim that the rockets were being fired from near the house where civilians were sheltering.
Yet the roads that can been seen in the Google map (top), marked (I), are 800 metres to the south of the house targetted by the missile, marked as (J).
Qana was the scene of a previous massacre during Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996. Over 100 civilians were killed as they sought shelter in the UN base, marked as (G).
Other launch sites identified in the aerial evidence are in the fields to the south of the village.
(Ed: The victims of the Israeli missile attack were civilians, mostly children and the elderly.) Here are their names:
Ahmad Mahmud Shaloub, 55;
Ibrahim Hashim, 65;
Hasna Hashim, 75;
Ali Ahmad Hashim, 3;
Abbas Ahmad Hashim, 9 months;
Hura Muhammad Qassim Shaloub, 12;
Mahdi Mahmud Hashim, 68;
Zahra Muhammad Qassim Shaloub, 12;
Ibrahim Ahmad Hashim, 7;
Jafar Mahmud Hashim, 10;
Lina Muhammad Mahmud Shaloub, 30;
Nabila Ali Amin Shaloub, 40;
Ula Ahmad Mahmud Shaloub, 25;
Khadija Ali Yusif, 31;
Taysir Ali Shaloub, 39;
Zaynab Muhammad Ali Amin Shaloub, 6;
Fatima Muhammad Hashim, 4;
Ali Ahmad Mahmud Shaloub, 17;
Maryam Hassan Muhsin, 30;
Afaf al-Zabad, 45;
Yahya Muhammad Qassim Shaloub, 9;
Ali Muhammad Kassim Shaloub, 10;
Yusif Ahmad Mahmud Shaloub, 6;
Qassim Samih Shaloub, 9;
Hussain Ahmad Hashim, 12;
Qassim Muhammad Shaloub, 7;
Raqiyya Mahmud Shaloub, 7;
Raqiyya Muhammad Hashim, unknown
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