Diary of the April 1996 Aggression: April 20

After a marked decline of hostilities on the 19th and 20th, renewed Zionist shelling and intensification of bombardment by battleships at sea was witnessed today. Shelling continued at the average of 2 shells every five minutes throughout the entire day, leaving three civilians wounded, one car burnt and 4 cars careered out of control.

Dawn 4:30 A.M. saw intermittent bombing from on Jibsheet to Adsheet, Harouf and Shakra towns, one home destroyed on the head of its occupants- the Abu Jaafar Murrah family.
At 7:30 A.M. Zionist warplanes and helicopters launched three raids on the villages of Ma `liyeh, Haniyeh, and Qlaiah in Tyre, leaving four martyrs and several others wounded.

Zionist warplanes intensified their attacks on villages and major highways, preventing International Emergency Forces food aid convoys from reaching villages where civilians refused to leave their homes despite Zionism's brutality.

On this day, no village was spared from the raids of hate, which also targeted a Lebanese army check point in the Mansouri town, leaving Sergeant Ali Diab of Bourj Shimali and soldier Hussein Remmo of Baalbek martyrs, and wounded Sergeant Munir Hayek from North Lebanon, Sergeant Abdullah Mehsen of Aitit, and a third soldier. A civilian car near the checkpoint was also burnt.