Diary of the April 1996 Aggression: April 19

Since denunciations and condemnations did not deter the "Israeli" enemy, or put a limit on its aggressiveness, the resistance and its Mujahideen response was to avenge the martyrs of Qana and Nabatiyeh with a barrage of Katyusha rockets on occupation settlements, lasting from the eve of April 18th, until morning of the 19th.

The Nabatiyeh and Qana Massacres resistance groups bombed occupation settlements of Kiryat Shmona, Kafarborom, and others. The occupation authorities banned any transmission of the information describing the state of these settlements the burnt under the impact of Katyusha rockets.

On the diplomatic front, Qana massacre opened the door wide for international sides to escape embarrassment by the U.S., since the massacre proved "Operation Grapes of Wrath" without a doubt an operation against civilians. 

Parallel to these reactions, Damascus was crammed with diplomats and foreign ministers at the time, all using the common phrase "cease-fire".

Hizbullah's presence in Damascus with a delegation headed by Party Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was akin to his continuous presence in the confrontation fields of the south and western Bekaa, with the same objective in mind, to make certain "Israel" is deprived the opportunity of politically exploiting its aggression.

The French initiative was welcomed and supported, while that of the United States was met with a blocked wall, especially, given that the Lebanese diplomatic movement-coordinated with Syria, did not spare efforts to give the Europeans an important role, while turning their back to U.S. initiative.

With continued "Israeli" bombardment of villages and towns, the resistance continued its retaliatory response.

Day after day and little by little the scene was becoming clearer, the resistance had overturned the balance of "Israeli" equations to impose a new equation based on the "balance of terror."