Diary of the April 1996 Aggression: April 16

The enemy agent's radio station continued broadcasting statements and warnings; and on this day, it warned, ""Israeli" troops will prohibit any movement on the way south, will consider any vehicle on that road as hostile, and will immediately strike".

A Zionist warplane hovered over a civilian car with two Lebanese army soldiers in Bazouriyeh, South Lebanon. The soldiers, taking notice of the chopper, hid in a deserted house, but the plane bombed the house, killing the soldiers.

At noon, warplanes struck consecutive raids on Jmayjmeh village, destroying two houses and a shelter with forty citizens,; Ayda Obadi, Fatima Ali Hamza (25 years old), Fadel Atwi (25 years old), and wounded ten other civilians.

At 2 pm, "Israeli" warplanes stroke on Beirut's southern suburb, firing fourteen rockets at the airport and Hay el-Sellom, where four-year-old Israa Lakies was shot.

In the Bikaa Temnine Tahta village, a raid killed the citizen Sanaa Khatib, and destroyed several cars.
At 5 pm, "Israeli" warplanes raided over Borj Kalaway twice, killing a civilian, and wounded others.