File image, via the UNIFIL account on X.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on October 10 that its peacekeepers had been attacked by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) three times.
In a statement, the peacekeeping force said that “this morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall. The injuries are fortunately, this time, not serious, but they remain in hospital.”
It also accused the IDF of firing on UN position 1-31 in the town of Labbouneh, “hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system. An IDF drone was observed flying inside the UN position up to the bunker entrance.”
A day earlier, according to UNIFIL, Israeli troops also “deliberately fired at and disabled the position’s perimeter-monitoring cameras. They also deliberately fired on UNP 1-32A in Ras Naqoura, where regular Tripartite meetings were held before the conflict began, damaging lighting and a relay station.”
Following the release of the UNIFIL statement, the Israeli ambassador to Italy was summoned by the country’s defense ministry, according to AFP.
The defense ministry of Italy, one of the main contributors to the UNIFIL, slammed the shooting at the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon as “intolerable.”
“The shooting at the UNIFIL headquarters” and other incidents involving “small arms fire” are “intolerable, they must be carefully and decisively avoided. For these reasons, I protested to my Israeli counterpart and the Israeli ambassador to Italy,” Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.
Irland, another key UNIFIL contributor, also slammed the IDF attacks. Taoiseach Simon Harris said he was deeply concerned by the UN peacekeepers statement and sent solidarity to the injured personnel.
“Firing on peacekeepers can never be tolerated or acceptable. The Blue Helmet worn by UN peacekeepers must be sacrosanct,” Harris said. “They are serving on behalf of the international community in some of the most challenging places in the world. They are not combatants, and their role must be respected at all times.”
This was not the first time UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have come under Israeli fire since the clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah broke out last October in the backdrop of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip. However, previous incidents were not as serious.
After escalating its strikes and launching a ground operation in southern Lebanon last month, the IDF began to pressure the UNIFIL, moving its troops right next to the peacekeepers positions and even ordering them to evacuate.
It’s worth noting that the confrontation has so far claimed the lives of more than 2,141 people in Lebanon and 62 others in Israel and Israeli-occupied territories.
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not surprising at all, chews are bunch of cowards
un means roockefellers, the most notorious kosher clan together with rooothschilds. people responsible for ww1 & ww2 are in charge of un so tell me how it can be morally justified. every time p@tin talks about partners, the multipolar world and the un, a knife opens in my pocket. i’d say that the un fairy tale is one of the worst one, right after fairy tale about the democracy . both were invented by the same jeeeews to deceive us. they want to kill us – that’s the true purpose of un.
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free pass jizz not real free lunch is not real free dinner is ra hell hell
zio nazi ask a nazi khazhar blood lickers rothchilds monopoly get out of jail card]never go to jail
eustace mullins anthony c sutton israel shahak the shoah must go on oded yinon on and on
“firing on peacekeepers can never be tolerated or acceptable.” oh yeah, what are you going to do about it? as usual they are going to both tolerate and accept it, over and over again (until they leave), useless.
i think useful idiots and active jerks are legitimate targets.
why didn’t they fire back??? oh, of course. not at the sacred jews. the un at this point is as useful as nipples on a breast plate…
way things are going in ukraine, seems kiev will capitulate early next year. that’ll free up 100s of thousands of battle hardened russian troopers with scores to settle against any of the zionist enslaved countries. perhaps russia will send a large expeditionary force to syria to secure its bases & help assad finally get rid of al-nusra, fsa, isis, pkk-ypg-sdf & any other “terrorist” forces illegally occupying sovereign syrian soil as to restore the rules based world order
world goverment keeping quite and looking at atrocities commited by this znionist scum. if this world leader was serious they can stop this war within week. but look like only iran and the ressitance force can make israel pay heavily
i authorize un personell to return fire on the idf.
the zio khasar mafia can do what they want in the face of the whole world, because they are still backed and in control of washington, london and brussels. time for a big change.
just shlomo being shlomo. shlomo routinely targets un peacekeepers, relief workers, medical staff, journalists. a lot of it is just reflexive talmudic spite and malice. they have done this for years. it is petty revenge for un criticism over the gaza genocide, and countries like ireland recently recognising palestine. a lot of the un troops are from the irish army. the response should be severing relations and imposing comprehensive crippling sanctions. anything less is a waste of time.