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.
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.
I don’t think anyone on the UN is ready to declare war on the United States, no matter how much we deserve it.
What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?
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.
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 blue painted vehicles and structures. Its just plain old murder.
Can you name a settler colonial project that committed a genocide that wouldn’t fire at peacekeepers?
Religion.
More like nationalism.
Porque no los dos? Or rather an inseparable blend of both
Because as usual religion can be used to argue for as well as against a political question. The only self coherent framework that has as its logical conclusion Israeli policy is nationalism.
Edit: plus, a nationalist explanatory framework is least susceptible to the moral hazard of anti-Semitism. Israeli policy is not exceptional, it’s as banal as Serbian or Azerbaijani ethnic nationalism, revanchism, jingoism and bigotry.
Religion is rarely a problem until it’s conservative, just like politics.
No, it’s Zionism
About as accurate a defense as saying religion had nothing to do with the Crusades
Zionism is a Settler Colonialist Project. Israel has never represented all Jewish people and never will, nor are it’s actions done to benefit all Jewish people. The conflation is itself antisemitic. Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized (see 29:01) by Zionism during its history.
Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian, discusses it more in his book
Theist copium is always so tiresome
Dude, stop. Conflating the two is responsible for genuine Antisemitism. Antisemites love the conflation because they can then attribute all the war crimes and political influence of Israel to all Jewish people, in order to justify their own antisemitic conspiracy theories. It is genuinely responsible for a rise in hate crimes abroad. Zionism is a form of Fascism that weaponizes antisemitism as a shield for it’s actions.
Trite, shallow, deliberately myopic copium. Same old bullshit as ever. Yawn.
Fucking no. Israel does not represent judiasm. Jews everywhere disavow them. Zionism is not Jewish.
Claiming that this is Jewish is antisemitism from both Israel and you.
This is about land, not religion.
What the fuck
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.
I’m sure the US will protest this time with real energy and will then send another billion in military equipment.
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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.
Attacking UN peacekeepers is unacceptable…but we will accept it
They were irish UN peacekeepers and Ireland is one of 4 countries in Europe that isnt part of NATO. What a strange coincidence that it’d be Irish peacekeepers who were shelled.
Tis but a flesh wound!
Biden is working on setting up a coup in Lebanon
The worst part is that you may be right
Edit: grammar
Can’t get more evil than the israelis
Man, imagine being a neighbor to those psycopaths. Or even worse, imagine being born Palestinian.
Israel: “No, you!”
I’m sure the UN peacekeepers were hanging around hospitals, schools and/or Palestinians
Why are they even there?
From a real news source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-peacekeepers-lebanon-say-we-are-staying-despite-israeli-attacks-2024-10-10/
UNIFIL is mandated by the Security Council to help the Lebanese army keep the country’s south free of weapons and armed personnel other than those of the state. That has sparked friction with Hezbollah, which effectively controls the area.
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They’re supposed to be Peacekeepers not Peace Makers. There’s a war happening and usually Peacekeepers leave the area when it becomes an active war.
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Their mission was to find Hezbollah weapons… well it seems they weren’t all that effective at doing that mission. Anyway, the IDF will remove those weapons for them. So they no longer have a mission to be there to do.
This is extremely incompetent on the part of the UN. It’s a struggle for the UN to get countries to volunteer soldiers to be UN Peacekeepers. The UN using Peacekeepers as human shields isn’t going to help in that. Peacekeepers serve an important function, and the UN putting them in unnecessary danger because it’s upset at Israel is completely irresponsible.
You’re being downvoted on every post you do about this topic, you’ve been here for a year and you know that pretty much nobody agrees with you. I’m really wondering what’s your agenda.
Why the fuck is the IDF there?
They are there because the Israelis act like spolied violent children. They dont WANT to be there.
Israel targeting Civilians and UN personnel/facilities with the justification of ‘human shields’ is nothing new.
Please link to the sources. The link is more important then the graphics
Is Al Jazeera still putting up casualty numbers like it’s scoreboard in a sport? Seems disgusting to me how they do that.
So my question is, do you think Hamas keeping Israelis hostage (which is a war crime BTW) is worth having all of this death?
Hamas tried immediately to trade the Israeli hostages for hostages the Israelis are holding, without charge, withour trail, indefinitely. israel said no. But no one ever wants to talk about the hostages the Israelis took before Oct 7. They want to pretend this started on Oct 7.
Yeah they traded for Yahya Sinwar in a previous deal. You know, the guy that planned October 7 and is now the leader of Hamas.
Sure, it didn’t begin on October 7. And it also didn’t begin with the next time Israel does an air strike. Or the next time. Or the time after that.
Palestinians are dying and you’re rooting for a continuation of violence indefinitely. You obviously don’t care about Palestinian lives because you don’t want the conflict to end even while Hamas and Hezbollah are losing badly and are only getting anyone that happens to be near them killed.
If you find thousands dead to be casual, that’s on you. The IDF sure does if they’re Palestinian or Lebanese.
Hamas was willing to do a full hostage exchange since Oct 8th. Israel has rejected any permanent ceasefire, that would release all the hostages, in favor of genocide. So maybe ask the Israeli Government that question instead.
I’m not pushing Al Jazeera’s pretty graphical scoreboards here. I’m not the one presenting death in a casual manner.
No, the onus is not on Israel for this. Hamas massacred villages (genocide) and took civilians hostage, which is a war crime. They continue to hold hostages, so they’re continuing in their war crimes every day.
It’s obvious they’re only holding the hostages now to prolong this so that Al Jazeera can make pretty graphics on the suffering of Palestinians so they can get more donation money. It seems you’re content to be a part of this sick grift Hamas has made by monetizing the suffering of Palestinians.
It’s obvious now they aren’t going to win anything other than the propganda war. But Israel obviously doesn’t give a shit about the propaganda, and they’re winning on every other front. So why continue the propaganda? Do you want this to drag on longer so more people will die?
Hamas did commit war crimes on Oct 7, not genocide. Nor does this kind of violence come out of nowhere. When people are subjected to the daily violence of Apartheid for generations, they will inevitably use violence to fight back. The underlying cause of all this violence stems from Zionism (Ethnic Cleansing, Settler Colonialism, Apartheid), and the only way to end the violence to to end the underlying cause.
Genocide
Holocaust scholar to discuss his conclusion that Gaza campaign constitutes genocide
UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank
“A Textbook Case of Genocide”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Decries Israel’s Assault on Gaza
800+ Legal Scholars Say Israel May Be Perpetrating ‘Crime of Genocide’ in Gaza
Neverending Violence
Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons
Palestinians are jailed without charge, forced into false confessions, routinely tortured, raped, denied medical attention, and some killed as a result. This includes hundreds of children.
Palestinians denied civil rights (HRW) including Military Court (B’TSelem)
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel (wiki)
Children are jailed and abused in Israeli prisons (Save The Children)
Torture and Abuse in Interrogations (B’TSelem)
Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy (NPR)
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai, an Israeli, has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
Massacring villages is genocide. This wasn’t civilians getting hit by stray bullets or shrapnel, not a targeting error, not some rogue member of Hamas getting out of control. This was Hamas combatants masscring villages under the orders of Yahya Sinwar, who is now the leader of Hamas.
You’re desperately trying to make excuses for the genocide committed by Hamas because you’ve dehumanized Israelis. You’re a genocide denier.
I’m the one advocating for an end to violence and equal rights for both Israeli and Palestinians.
You’re desperately trying to make excuses for the genocide committed by Hamas because you’ve dehumanized Israelis. You’re a genocide denier.
You are projecting hard
One or Two State Solution
The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.
- Avi Shlaim
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
During the current war, Hamas officials have said that the group does not want to return to ruling Gaza and that it advocates for forming a government of technocrats to be agreed upon by the various Palestinian factions. That government would then prepare for elections in Gaza and the West Bank, with the intention of forming a unified government.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
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