| Mansouri attack | |
| Location: | Mansouri, Southern Lebanon |
| Date: | 13 April 1996 |
| Partof: | Operation Grapes of Wrath |
| Coordinates: | 33.1711°N 35.2092°W |
| Time: | 13:40 |
| Type: | Airstrike |
| Fatalities: | 6 |
| Injuries: | 4 |
| Perpetrators: | Israel Defence Forces |
The Mansouri attack occurred on 13 April 1996, when an Israel Defence Forces helicopter attacked an ambulance in Mansouri, a village in Southern Lebanon, killing two women and four children.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
At 1:30 PM, Abbas Jiha, a farmer and volunteer ambulance driver, was driving a Volvo vehicle, with the word "ambulance" written in red. He was taking wounded people as well as four of his children to Sidon. A US-made Israeli Apache helicopter chased the car and fired two missiles at it.[7] It killed 6 civilians out of the 13 passengers who were escaping the village.[8] The children ages ranged from 7 months to 9 years.[9]
Although Israeli officials admitted that the vehicle was targeted, Major General Moshe Ya'alon claimed that it was "used by fighters to flee",[10] but an investigation by Amnesty International found no connection between anyone of them to Hezbollah.[11] Robert Fisk said that Israel broke the Geneva Conventions, which protect civilians even if they were around "armed antagonists".[12] B'Tselem called it a "blatant violation of the laws of war".