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Image 1 : “Israel’s” massacre in Qana
Image 2 : Today marks the 26th anniversary of Qana’s massacre in South Lebanon, when the IOF shelled a UN compound
Image 3 : On April 18, 1996 Israeli occupation forces fire artillery shells at a UN compound, well-marked on Israeli maps, housing more than 800 Lebanese taking refuge from Israeli attacks
Image 4 : 106 Lebanese civilians were killed and 116 injured along with 4 Fijian UN peacekeepers
Image 5 : Half of the civilians killed in the Israeli shelling were children
Image 6 : “Israel” denied that it had purposefully shelled the compound. However, an Amnesty International investigation concluded, “the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound. The IF have failed to substantiate their claim that the attack was a mistake.” / End ID]
This is one of the biggest massacres done by Israel, known as the first Qana massacre (they did another massacre in Qana in the 2006 war). An American Veto aborted the decision to condemn the crime in the UN Security Council.
Today’s Israeli PM, played a crucial role in this massacre, as he was the one who ordered the massive artillery and airstrike attacks on the compound and village. “Bennett sounded hysterical, and his stress contributed significantly to the terrible accident.” said an IDF officer
Never forget that while Palestinians may be their main target, Israel’s target is Arabs and anything Arab.
Detail of Shirin, Queen of the Sassanian Empire, bathing. The hooves of the horse of King Khosrow can be seen at the top right. From the Kashmir Manuscript, 1791.
Shirin was the wife of Khosrow II, the shahanshah, or King of Kings, of the Sassanian (Persian) Empire. Her exact cultural/ethnic origins are debated; some sources say she was Roman (at her time that was the Byzantine Empire who considered themselves Roman) and others say she was Aramean, a non-Persian from the areas of Assyria and Babylonia.
What is known is that she was a Christian and Khosrow was Zoroastrian and that such a relationship was considered forbidden. Through all the turmoil in their lives, Shirin and Khosrow remained together. During that time she was able to gain support for the Christian minority in the empire.
Her and Khosrow’s lives and romance are retold, with fictional elements, in the Persian epic poem Shahnameh, the romance Khosrow and Shirin by the famed poet Nizami Ganjavi, and even in One Thousand and One Nights.
Came across the show Journeys to the End of the World on @historyhit The episode The Lost Buddhas of Afghanistan talk about the Buddhas of Bamiyan that dated back to roughly 550-650 AD. Sadly these statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
The voyage taken by host and photojournalist David Adams @davidadamsfilms to get to the statues is amazing. If you can watch it, do so.
