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The 2006 Qana Airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana Massacre or Second Qana massacre) was an air strike carried out by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on a three-story〔"(Qana 'stronger' on anniversary of Israeli attack ), ''Daily Star'', July 30, 2007〕 building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. 28 civilians were killed, of which 16 were children.〔Reuters (July 9, 2007). ("Factbox – War in Lebanon, one year ago" ). Retrieved July 30, 2007.〕 Israel halted air strikes for 48 hours following the attack, amid increasing calls for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas. Initial media reports stated that more than 50 people, including 37 children, had died,〔"( The children went to sleep believing they were safe. And then Israel targeted them as terrorists ). ''Daily Telegraph'', July 31, 2006"〕〔"(34 Youths Among 56 Dead in Israeli Attack ). ABC News, July 30, 2006"〕 although later reports revised this to a lower figure of 28, including 16 children, with 13 people reported missing.〔("Israel/Lebanon: Qana Death Toll at 28" ), Human Rights Watch, August 2, 2006〕〔Ghattas, Sam F. "Human Rights Watch, Lebanese Red Cross and civil defense report lower Qana death toll." ''The Associated Press''. 3 August 2006. International News. 31 August 2006 LexisNexis Academic.〕 Residents dug through the rubble with their hands, searching for survivors as bodies were removed. Video broadcast by Arab TV showed the bloodied bodies of women and children who appeared to be wearing nightclothes.〔 The Israel Defence Forces (IDF), although it admitted striking the building, initially denied that the explosion that caused the mass deaths were the result of their attack. This was contested by Qana's residents, who said the building collapsed due to the Israeli bombing. According to the IDF, the bombing was an attempt to stop Katyusha rockets supposedly being fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel from the village over a two-week period〔(IDF: 150 rockets fired from Qana at Israeli cities | Jerusalem Post )〕 and said residents were warned to leave.〔("Israel halts airstrikes for 48 hours." ) ''CNN.com''. 30 July 2006. 2 January 2014.〕 International observers and journalists said there was no evidence the building served any military purpose.〔("Israel/Lebanon: Qana Death Toll at 28" ), Human Rights Watch, 2 August 2006. 1 September 2006.〕 Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Israel of war crimes and asked, "Why, we wonder, did they choose Qana yet again?", in reference to an artillery shelling carried out by Israeli forces that killed over 100 civilians at a UN compound 10 years before. Kofi Annan urged the United Nations Security Council to condemn the attack.〔 ==Attack; medical and humanitarian response== The airstrike was carried out using two bombs, at least one of which was precision guided, which were dropped in the hour following 1 a.m. on July 30, The second bomb was dropped five to fifteen minutes after the first. The aerial attack killed members of the Shalhoub and Hashem families who had used an underground garage below a three-story apartment building as a shelter during the bombing.〔 Initial news reports state that the families were asleep when the two bombs were dropped on their building. While Israel had directed residents of South Lebanon to flee the conflict, roads out of the area were also subject to Israeli bombardment.〔Sabrina Tavernise, "(A Night of Death and Terror for Lebanese Villagers )," ''New York Times'', July 31, 2006〕 One of the eight survivors of the blast said that attacks on the roads out of Qana discouraged the two families from leaving.〔Ilene R. Prusher and Nicholas Blanford, "(New urgency for Lebanon cease-fire )," ''Christian Science Monitor'', July 31, 2006.〕 Anthony Shadid, reporting for the Washington Post, described the scene he saw that day: "Most of the dead had choked on flying dirt and other debris. Their bodies, intact, preserved their final gestures: a raised arm called for help, an old man pulled on pants. Twelve-year-old Hussein Hashem lay curled in the fetal position, his mouth seeming to have vomited earth. Mohammed Chalhoub sat on the ground, his right hand broken. Khadja, his wife and Hasna, his mother, were dead, as were his daughters, Hawra and Zahra, aged twelve and two. As were his sons, Ali, ten: Yahya, nine; and Assem, seven."〔Anthony Shadid,''House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East,'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 p.4.〕 The ''Christian Science Monitor'' reported that further airstrikes and artillery attacks, which destroyed several houses in Qana, delayed the rescue response.〔 Sami Yazbuk, the head of the Red Cross in Tyre, told ''The Guardian'' that the first call about the bombing was received at 7 a.m. He said that previous shelling on the road to Qana had delayed the arrival of Red Cross personnel.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qana airstrike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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