Diary of the April 1996 Aggression: April 13

Day Three of the April 1996 Aggression
Local Editor

After the Suhmur massacre on the second day of the April aggression, al-Mansouri massacre followed on the third day.

Six people were martyred and seven wounded when the ambulance they were riding in, believing it would be exempted from "Israeli" shelling, was a bombing target for enemy helicopters.

The six martyrs were two women aged between 28 and 50; the remaining were children aged between 2 and a half months and 10 years old.

"Israel" continued to shell the villages and towns of Adsheet, Jibsheet, Haruf and Mayfadun. It also attacked a Lebanese army position in Habbush and carried out attacks on the districts of Tyre and Nabatiyeh.

In parallel, the Mujahedeen resistance shot down an Apache helicopter on the verge of bombing civilian homes, and a resistance rocket hit a Merkava tank in al-Dabshah enemy post, killing and wounding all its crew.

In the meantime, Katyusha rockets rained down on "Israeli" occupation settlements, Nahariya, Gideon and Kiryat Shmona in particular.

The resistance response prompted "Israeli" Foreign Minister Ehud Barak to admit that "Hizbullah, despite "Israel's" military operations, is still capable of launching Katyusha rockets at any moment into the Galilee."

With the aggression and targeting of civilians continuing, it was high time to mobilize the resistance forces. The Secretary General of Hizbullah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, addresses the Mujahideen in a speech, saying, "Let us rise up to lift humiliation from our nation, killing from our people, and occupation from our land, and let's be ready to meet God and His Prophet and the Imams (pbut)."