Hizbullah children remember "Israeli" bombing of UN base - shelter

Source: AFP, 27-4-2006
BEIRUT - About 2,000 children marched through the streets of Beirut armed with fake rockets in a rally organised by Hizbullah to mark the anniversary of a deadly "Israeli" bombardment 10 years ago.
Rows of boys wearing military fatigues and red berets marched with mock Katyushas resting on their shoulders in memory of the "Israeli" bombing of a UN base in Qana in southern Lebanon on April 18, 1996 that killed 105 people.
Girls in white head-to-toe chadors carried effigies of blood-stained white doves bearing the names of several southern villages where civilians have been killed in "Israeli" shelling over the past decade.
Lebanese civilians had taken refugee at the UN base in Qana during "Israel`s" "Grapes of Wrath" offensive aimed at wiping out occupation resistance movements in particular Hizbullah movement and stopping strikes on its territory.
"Israel" said the bombing was a mistake but a UN report concluded it was probably deliberate.
"Removing the arms of the resistance is removing the strength of Lebanon," read one placard carried by the children, referring to a 2004 UN Security Council Resolution which calls for the disarmament of militias in Lebanon.
"Israel" pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon in May 2000 after a 22-year occupation in the face of a guerrilla campaign by the occupation resistant group Hizbullah.