Talk:International reactions to the Qana airstrike

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Where were the MEN of Qana?..[edit]

According to Hezbollah, Israel has destroyed a "residential appartment building". In the middle of the night. Killing 60 (later reduced to 28) civilians.

All of them -- "women and children".

Where, a reasonable person must ask, were them men of these civilians families?

The only answers I can think of are not very flattering for Hezbollah:

  1. The men were outside reloading the rocket launchers, their corpses removed for better propaganda effect.
  2. The building was a harem.
  3. The building was empty when bombed (following the advice in Israeli leaflets), with "innocent" corpses brought in the morning from morgue(s) for propaganda.
  4. The male (fighters?) corpses were removed by Hezbollah for propaganda.

The last one is the most charitable towards Hezbollah (and explains the 60 vs. 28 mishap in the number of casualties).

What is the opinion of Hezbollah sympathizers? What's their explanation for there being no males among the Qana victims? In my POV, Hezbollah's propaganda overplayed its hand... By how much?

I'm not alone in doubting, by the way. A carefully assembled collection of the published photographs from the incident (see "Qana - the director's cut". August 5, 2006. Retrieved August 12, 2006.) shows the same few corpses photographed all day long by different photographers as they arrived to the site and were greeted by "locals" (or Hezbollah's propaganda-operatives?)...

пан Бостон-Київський 18:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's strage. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the article, if it can be verified. I remember seeing a list of the people who died there -- I should look for it again. ehudshapira 00:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Qana article[edit]

This should be merged with [2006 Qana airstrike]. Perhaps it was split before Qana was split from the main article? ehudshapira 00:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I unsuccesfully tried to AfD it. Now, one month from the airstrike, it should be obvious that an "international reaction" article for such minor historical event is not justified, but perhaps wikipedia IS an indiscriminate collection of information... Medico80 09:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Two years after the event, this article still seems unjustified. I tried to AfD it, but was unsuccessful as well. Rabend (talk) 03:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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