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23. UN peacekeepers in Lebanon report blasts at HQ for second day running

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 01:56 PM

Oct 11

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has reported new blasts at its headquarters which injured two Sri Lankan members of the force, a day after the same base came under Israeli tank fire.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said the explosions on Friday hit the base in Naqoura near an observation tower, but did not specify the source of the attack. It said in a statement that one of the wounded peacekeepers had been taken to hospital in the southern coastal town of Tyre, while the second was treated at the Naqoura base.

Unifil also said an Israeli military bulldozer had destroyed part of the concrete perimeter of one of its observation positions on the Israeli-Lebanese boundary as tanks moved alongside, and that it had sent a reaction force to reinforce the position.
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Joe Biden, the US president, said he was asking Israel to not hit UN peacekeepers in its conflict with Hezbollah, and the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told Israel that attacks on the peacekeeping force were intolerable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-report-blasts-at-hq-for-second-day-running

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UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately [View all] muriel_volestrangler Oct 10 OP

K&R Dave Bowman Oct 10 #1

The big middle finger of Netanyahu and it really is moniss Oct 10 #2

Maybe if the UN actually passed some other resolutions about other countries EX500rider Oct 10 #3

Nowhere in the OP or my response moniss Oct 10 #6

North Korea China Iran Cuba Venezuela? Aussie105 Oct 10 #12

All those resolutions were passed before the current War EX500rider Oct 11 #20

this hardly excuses Israel firing on and almost killing UN peacekeepers...in fact it's this sort of action that inspires LymphocyteLover Oct 11 #15

if you can try to sink US ships with no consequences quakerboy Oct 10 #4

A word missing in your header? Aussie105 Oct 10 #13

I just got an email from Foreign Policy about this iemanja Oct 10 #5

It should also be noted that moniss Oct 10 #7

Since when do UN peacekeepers iemanja Oct 10 #8

They don't...neither do the civilian populations of sovereign nations Prairie Gates Oct 10 #9

Nobody ever said they did. I think you misinterpret moniss Oct 11 #14

You said the IDF "ordered" them iemanja Oct 11 #17

That is what they in fact did and the UN told them no and moniss Oct 11 #19

Thanks for the clarification iemanja Oct 11 #21

Glad to and the IDF went even further moniss Oct 11 #22

From Crosetto today Prairie Gates Oct 11 #16

Hezbollah actually KILLED a UN peacekeeper last year NickB79 Oct 10 #10

Irish UNIFIL soldier KIA, three WIA in unplanned attack last year C0RI0LANUS Oct 10 #11

... demmiblue Oct 11 #18

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon report blasts at HQ for second day running muriel_volestrangler Oct 11 #23