In a few minutes, that safe haven is turned into the heart of the war zone by Israeli shells. Amnesty International and other human rights groups condemn the attack. The tragedy is over.
History moves on.
But the 100 dead remain at Qana. They are in the small, muddy cemetery that has become a national shrine in Lebanon. The people of Qana, and all of Lebanon, continue to ask how such a thing could happen. There is no answer from the fading photographs along the wall. No answer echoes from the blasted walls and blackened rubble of the shelled camp, continually decorated with wreaths of flowers from those who mourn and wonder.