On April 18th 1996 Israel's occupation forces deliberately targeted the United Nations base and adjacent refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon with an artillery barrage, killing 106 civilians as part of then prime minister Shimon Peres' 'Grapes of Wrath' attack in Lebanon.
This was de facto human sacrifice - intended to gain votes in a coming parliamentary elections by showing that Peres could be hard and ruthless. It failed; he lost the elections to Benyamin Netanyahu's Likud and started the long decline of Israel's once dominant Labor Party.
'Naturally' no one has ever been brought to trial for this first Qana Massacre. Second would follow a decade later, then Israel would kill 28 civilians in an air-strike.
According to Shimon Peres himself, he had no regrets.
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