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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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[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 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.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 1 points 19 hours 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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

[–] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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@lemmy.world 11 points 20 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 blue painted vehicles and structures. Its just plain old murder.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Porque no los dos? Or rather an inseparable blend of both

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Religion is rarely a problem until it's conservative, just like politics.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

About as accurate a defense as saying religion had nothing to do with the Crusades

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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:

  1. 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.
  2. We could also send a prepaid hot stone masseuse to their home who also had a mildly questionable political bumper sticker on their car.
  3. 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.
[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Tis but a flesh wound!

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Biden is working on setting up a coup in Lebanon

[–] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The worst part is that you may be right

Edit: grammar

[–] febra@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't get more evil than the israelis

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Israel: "No, you!"

[–] donescobar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

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