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Mansouri attack
Part of Operation Grapes of Wrath
Abbas Jiha, holding one of his killed daughters
LocationMansouri, Southern Lebanon
Coordinates33°10′16″N 35°12′33″E / 33.17111°N 35.20917°E / 33.17111; 35.20917
Date13 April 1996
13:40 (UTC+03:00)
Attack type
Airstrike
Deaths6
Injured4
PerpetratorsIsrael Defence Forces

The Mansouri attack occurred on 13 April 1996, when an Israel Defence Forces helicopter attacked an ambulance in Mansouri, a village in Southern Lebanon, killing two women and four children.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Attack

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At 1:30 PM, Abbas Jiha, a farmer and volunteer ambulance driver,[8] was driving a Volvo vehicle, with the word "ambulance" written in red. He was taking wounded people as well as four of his children to Sidon. A United States-made Israeli Apache helicopter followed the car and fired two missiles at it.[8] The attack killed 6 civilians out of the 13 passengers who were escaping the village.[9] The children ages ranged from 7 months to 9 years.[10]

Aftermath

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Although Israeli officials admitted that the vehicle was targeted, Major General Moshe Ya'alon claimed that it was "used by fighters to flee",[11] but an investigation by Amnesty International found no connection between anyone of them to Hezbollah.[12] Robert Fisk said that Israel broke the Geneva Conventions, which protect civilians even if they were around "armed antagonists".[13] B'Tselem called it a "blatant violation of the laws of war".[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "ISRAEL/LEBANON". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  2. ^ Israel/Lebanon: Unlawful Killings during Operation Grapes of Wrath (PDF), Amnesty International, July 1996
  3. ^ "Petition Charges Israel with War Crimes". MERIP. 1999-12-08. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  4. ^ "Lebanon flies the flags of mourning". The Independent. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  5. ^ "Documents and Source Material". Journal of Palestine Studies. 26 (1): 138–163. 1996-10-01. doi:10.2307/2538046. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 2538046.
  6. ^ lebanons02 (2014-10-22). "An Israeli helicopter fired at an ambulance killing two women and four girls in al-Mansouri". Civil Society Knowledge Centre. Retrieved 2021-04-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Friel, Howard (2013-09-21). Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties. Interlink Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62371-035-4.
  8. ^ a b "IS THIS SOME KIND OF CRUSADE?". The Independent. 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  9. ^ a b https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/israeli_violations_of_human_rights_of_lebanese_civilians.pdf Page 76
  10. ^ "LEBANESE BURY DEAD". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  11. ^ "Robert Fisk. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  12. ^ Bamford, James (2005-05-10). A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-27504-2.
  13. ^ The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. 2007.
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