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2 June 1994

⚰Ain Kawkab massacre

North & Bekaa#Israel–Lebanon
AttackerIsrael / IDF➜TargetHezbollah

On 2 June 1994 Israeli aircraft bombed a Hezbollah training camp at Ain Kawkab near Baalbek during a course for volunteers, killing between 26 and 45 young men, most of them sleeping teenagers (about 40 in most sources) and wounding dozens; Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah led the martyrs' funeral in Beirut the next day before 15,000 people. One of the largest raids on the Bekaa before the 1996 aggression.

Twenty Katyushas on the Galilee in reply to the Ain Kawkab massacre ▼
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