Qana, #Lebanon after #Israeli strikes #middleeastcrisis

Flattened buildings and streets filled with piles of rubble and debris can be seen in footage of the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on the town in southern Lebanon on Tuesday that the authorities say killed 15 civilians.
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The Israeli military said Tuesday’s strikes targeted and killed Jalal Mustafa Hariri, a Hezbollah commander. There was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.

“Qana always gets its share,” the town’s mayor, Mohammed Krasht, told the AP, referring to the town’s history of Israeli bombardment.

In 1996, Israeli artillery shelling on a United Nations compound housing hundreds of displaced people in Qana killed at least 100 civilians and wounded scores more people, including four UN peacekeepers. During the 2006 war, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed nearly three dozen people, a third of them children. Israel said at the time that it had struck a Hezbollah rocket launcher behind the building.

Israel’s strikes on Lebanon have continued, with more than a quarter of the population now affected by Israeli evacuation orders, according to the UN’s refugee agency.

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