”Peres får mig att tänka på blod, eld och slakt”

The 1996 shelling of Qana also known as Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996 near Qana, a village in Southern Lebanon, when the Israel Defense Forces fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound. Of 800 Lebanese civilians who had taken refuge in the compound, 106 were killed and around 116 injured. Four Fijian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon soldiers were also seriously injured. The attack occurred amid heavy fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah during Operation Grapes of Wrath. A United Nations investigation later stated it was unlikely that the Israeli shelling was a technical or procedural error, which was based on video evidence showing that an Israeli drone was spying on the compound before the shelling. Israel at first denied spying on the compound but changed its version of the story after the video was made public. Israel categorically rejected the findings of the UN report concerning the incident.

Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has been Middle East correspondent intermittently since 1976 for various media; since 1989 he is correspondent for The Independent, primarily based in Beirut. Fisk holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent and has been voted British International Journalist of the Year seven times. He has published a number of books and reported on several wars and armed conflicts. An Arabic speaker, he is one of a few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997.

Shimon Peres (hebreiska: שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס), född Szymon Perski den 2 augusti 1923 i Visjneva i dåvarande Polen (nuvarande Vitryssland), är en israelisk politiker och statsman. Han var Israels premiärminister 1977, 1984–1986 och 1995–1996 samt Israels president 2007-2014. Han mottog Nobels fredspris 1994 tillsammans med Yassir Arafat och Yitzhak Rabin.