The truth only emerged when the UNIFIL soldier secretly delivered the tape to Beirut-based journalist Robert Fisk.
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According to a UN report, on April 18, Hezbollah fighters fired two or three Katyusha rockets and between five and eight mortars at Israeli soldiers near the Red Line (the northern limits of the "security zone") from positions about 220 meters southwest and 350 meters southeast of the United Nations compound.
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Meanwhile, Hezbollah continuously bombarded northern Israel with Katyusha rockets.
1996 shelling of Qana, also known as the First Qana massacre, an attack on a UN compound near Qana, Lebanon
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Some commentators have pointed out similarities to the 1996 shelling of Qana, in which over 100 civilians were killed by Israeli anti-personnel shells on a UN compound.