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Israeli forces shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have been wounded by Israeli fire, the mission said on Thursday, as Israel's military ground operations in the country continued.

In a statement, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said two of its members were wounded after a Merkava tank fired towards an observation tower at Unifil headquarters in Naqoura, "directly hitting it and causing them to fall".

"[Israeli] soldiers also fired on UN position (UNP) 1-31 in Labbouneh, hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system," said the peacekeeping mission.

"An IDF drone was observed flying inside the UN position up to the bunker entrance."

Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past month, including a bombing campaign and ground invasion, have killed over 1,200 people and displaced one million.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

What the fuck

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't forget that Israeli affiliated militias assassinated their UN negotiator in 1948.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

The leader of the assassination plot was the future founder of the modern Likud party and future prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He lead the Likud party until 1993 when Netanyahu took over. His Wikipedia page is absolutely fucked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir

This and their attacks on the UNRWA are far from the first times Israel has been at war with the UN.

[-] Foni@lemm.ee 59 points 2 months ago

I'm sure the US will protest this time with real energy and will then send another billion in military equipment.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago

Attacking UN peacekeepers is unacceptable.....but we will accept it

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ireland is vocal about the Palestines peoples human rights, which has angered Israel greatly. They are also not a member of NATO.

What a strange coincidence that it'd be Irish peacekeepers who were attacked.

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Does that matter? They killed an American protestor. Israel killed hundreds of other humanitarians. Israel even killed their own citizens.

It is all crazy.

[-] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Tis but a flesh wound!

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Biden is working on setting up a coup in Lebanon

[-] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The worst part is that you may be right

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[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m sure the US will protest this time with real energy

Are you thinking 'sternly worded memo' or 'a leak that Biden is outraged behind the scenes', but not officially? Those seem extreme.

How about one or all 3 of these:

We order 100 pizzas to the Netenyahu family house that they didnt even order themselves, and leak a photo of Biden on the phone to the media. We'll pay for those pizzas of course.
We could also send a prepaid hot stone masseuse to their home who also had a mildly questionable political bumper sticker on their car.
We could send the far right Israel government leaders on a luxury vacation, but ensure that the little bottles of alchohol in first class on the plane are extra small sized. I've never been in first class myself, but I can imagine that would be extremely frustrating.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Every bill will have “Knock it off!” written on it. In bold face!

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

[-] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe they're using the tried-and-tested strategy of targeting UN forces to make them leave. It happened in Rwanda too, they killed those Belgian peacekeepers and then Belgium and France pulled out. Shortly after that, the Rwandan start their genocide. At least the Israelis seem to have just wounded the peacekeepers, unlike the Rwandan, who hacked the Belgian with machetes. Nevertheless, it doesn't look very promising.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Israelis did it in 2006 as well. killed 4 UN peacekeepers chilling in their post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_incidents_during_the_2006_Lebanon_War No real repercussions from it.

They did it during the 6 day war too. Rolled up on some UN peacekeepers trying to leave the sinai and slaughtered them. 15 killed 17 wounded. 14 Indians and 1 Brazilian. TheUN peacekeepers were evacuating at the time and Israel didnt even pretend to not know they were UN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Emergency_Force No real repercussions from it.

They also attacked the USS Liberty, and American Navy ship in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171. Israel pretended not to know it was American, but its not a beleivable denial. As always, there were No real repercussions from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Its clearly standard operating procedure to murder some UN peacekeepers. Its not like they are hard to pick out in their bright white painted vehicles and structures, and blue uniforms. Its just plain old murder.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

Can you name a settler colonial project that committed a genocide that wouldn't fire at peacekeepers?

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[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

the countires those soldiers are from should bring in some jets and take care of that problem. Putitng up with being shot by far right wing fascists is some shameful bullshit.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fact is Israel will only stop when they are made to stop. They will keep pushing it farther and farther until they fuck up and mess with someone able to hurt them bad. Until then they are untouchable and it might be a long time. But Israel has already doomed its own long-term existence, they're just too dumb to see it.

My money is on them pulling a military stunt, accidental or not involving Turkye and then finding out. Turkye has the means to make them shit their breaches and there's no way in hell the US is doing anything militarily against them and risking loosing a key member of NATO to Russia. If Turkye closes the Bosphorus, the Bosphorus stays closed and nobody has the means to forcibly open it short of using nukes.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think anyone on the UN is ready to declare war on the United States, no matter how much we deserve it.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Can't get more evil than the israelis

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Man, imagine being a neighbor to those psycopaths. Or even worse, imagine being born Palestinian.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Israel: "No, you!"

[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I’m sure the UN peacekeepers were hanging around hospitals, schools and/or Palestinians

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

"Sorry Captain, it was dark and in that angle he looked so much like an hospital"

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