Qana, South Lebanon, 2006.
Stop crying mama.
Haizara grieves her dead parents in the south Lebanese village of Qana, and her young daughter tries to comfort her. Haizara’s parents were killed in an Israeli strike and are still trapped under the rubble. The smell of death is everywhere. Nobody knows how many bodies that lie under the ruins of the village.
On July 12, 2006 Hezbollah soldiers attacked an Israeli patrol, killing two soldiers and taking two hostages.The ensuing hostilities escalated into a 34-day long conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Shiite military-political force.Some 1,200 Lebanese died, the majority of them civilians. It is estimated that one third of them were children. A third of the country’s 4.5 million people. were displaced.
43 Israeli civilians died – mostly in indiscriminate rocket fire from Hezbollah and 117 IDF soldiers were killed.