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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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[–] spirinolas 10 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] sorval_the_eeter 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

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[–] billwashere 50 points 2 days ago (18 children)

What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 17 hours 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

They did it during the 6 day war too, if I recall correctly. Rolled up on some UN peacekeepers trying to leave the sinai and opened up on them.

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] phoneymouse 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] febra 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't get more evil than the israelis

[–] sorval_the_eeter 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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