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Mitri

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2006-07-31

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2014-08-27

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1. “I have also come to ask for the setting in motion of a process of international investigation with regard to the crime of Qana, Qana the second, where a massacre had taken place in 1996. I am sure that many of us - since many of us here are people of memory - will remember the massacre in 1996 during Operation Grapes of Wrath. I think that by now, the facts are known to all of us. Dozens of elderly people, disabled people, children and women were sheltering in the basement of an unfinished house. An Israeli jet dropped two bombs, killing 62 persons, including 35 children, who were buried under the rubble.”

   2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5503 (2006) · source

2. “1 have come from Beirut bearing images of horror and sounds of grief, as well as both the anger and the hope of my people. I trust that 2 members of the Council will not see images of what we have seen and turn away, or hear what we have heard and close their ears. Let me start with a word of appreciation for all the efforts that led to the presidential statement of yesterday (S/PRST/2006/35). I would like to commend your own efforts, Mr. President, but also those of the Secretary-General, whom I join in affirming that the authority and the standing of the Security Council are at stake. While appreciating the efforts of yesterday, I have come here to reiterate forcefully the call of the Lebanese Government for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire. The onslaught continues unabated. It has to stop.”

   2006-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5503 (2006) · source