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Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff
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mandag 18. oktober 2004 |
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| FUNCTION:
Established to confirm the withdrawal of Israeli
forces from southern Lebanon, to restore international peace and
security and to assist the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return
of its effective authority in the area.
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UNIFIL has, however,
been prevented from fully implementing its mandate. Israel has
maintained its occupation of parts of south Lebanon, where the Israeli
forces and their local auxiliary continued to be targets of attacks by
groups that have proclaimed their resistance to the occupation. UNIFIL
does its best to limit the conflict and protect the inhabitants of the
area from the fighting. In doing so, it contributes to stability in the
area.
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Sist oppdatert ( søndag 26. juni 2005 )
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Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff
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mandag 18. oktober 2004 |
 | Thursday 18th April 1996 around 1400 hours the most tragic incident occurred at Fijibatt HQ in Qana / South Lebanon. After the Israeli invasion "Grapes of Wrath" by air, sea and land, paralyzing normal life in the south and displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians. |
IDF Artillery Battery located at the Lebanese / Israeli border shelled this UN position where 800 civilian Lebanese refuges had been taking shelter and caused 106 civilian deaths and about 200 civilians and 4 Fijian Peacekeepers wounded. (Capt. S. Dakai - Military Investigation Officer, Capt. M. Seru - Dentist, Lcpl. G Bakoso - Infantryman, PTE. I. Bulivou - Infantryman).
I had been trying to leave UNIFIL Head Quarters since April 11, when the blitz started. I wanted to go to Beirut where my family lived to check on them if everything was OK. That had not been possible as helicopters had been grounded and all travel had been restricted to Operational Requirements only. However, I spoke to some of my Fijian friends and they made me aware of a convoy leaving for Beirut at about 1300 hours on April 18. The convoy should receive Fijian Officials at Beirut airport and escort them back to Fijibatt. I joined the convoy, as we drove up the coast road from Naqoura the convoy made a right turn somewhere before the city of Tyr. I asked the driver of the car why we would leave the main road. He explained that the Fijian Commanding Officer was in the convoy and he needed an escort back to his Head Quarters. I thought that was fair enough, after all we would stop for less than half an hour in Qana where the H.Q's is. The Fijian crew would collect some uniform effects and we would leave within short time. I will now try to explain what I experienced there: |
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Sist oppdatert ( søndag 30. juli 2006 )
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Skrevet av Robert Fisk - The Independent - 5/6/96
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mandag 18. oktober 2004 |
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Qana: It is a soldier's videotape, recorded -- at the start at least -- as just another incident to remember back home by a United Nations trooper after his six months' tour of duty in southern Lebanon are over. Indeed, when the camera first records the Israeli shells tearing into the UN base at Qana, the other soldiers who appear in the film, most of them Norwegians in the UN's Force Mobile Reserve opposite Qana, seem unaware of its implications. One of them makes a joke, another looks gawkily into the camera even as it tapes the clouds of smoke obscuring Qana. The camera pans through barbed wire as more brown puffs of smoke emerge from the white-painted buildings of the UN's Fijian battalion headquarters. |
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Sist oppdatert ( søndag 30. juli 2006 )
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Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff
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mandag 18. oktober 2004 |
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``Anything within 600 meters is dangerous because there is always a chance the shells could fall short,'' an Army official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said targeting shells to strike within fewer than 400 yards is very close firing.'' The United Nations conducted its own investigation. Major General Franklin van Kappen, Former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's top military advisor, submitted a six page report that was highly critical of the IDF: |
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Sist oppdatert ( søndag 30. juli 2006 )
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Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff
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mandag 18. oktober 2004 |
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PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON, RAFIC AL HARIRI:
``Now Mr. Peres admits he cannot continue his war and is seeking a political solution, I have always said this problem can never be solved by military action. It has to be solved by political efforts. We will do our best to assure a cease fire.'' PRESIDENT OF LEBANON, ELIAS HRAOUI:
"How could the Israeli people, once the victims of Auschwitz, Treblinka and others, accept that its State massacre more than a hundred men, women and children who were all innocent civilians in Qana that was once visited by Christ and was a scene of His miracles?" he said. "What do you want Lebanon to become? Do you want it to be the sight of mass graves for the world to visit? Would Lebanon say to this world "This is what you did with your own hands. Weren't the mass graves of Jews a testimony to the crimes committed by the Nazis 60 years ago?" |
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Sist oppdatert ( søndag 30. juli 2006 )
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