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The United Nations said on Sunday Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks that have been denounced by Israel’s own allies.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the United Nations to evacuate the troops of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force from combat areas in Lebanon. Hours later, the force reported what it described as additional Israeli violations, including two Israeli Merkava tanks destroying the main gate of a base and forcibly entering before dawn that morning.

Soon after the tanks left, shells exploded 100 metres away, releasing smoke which blew across the base and sickened U.N. personnel, causing 15 to require treatment despite wearing gas masks, it said. It did not say who fired the shells or what sort of toxic substance it suspected.

It also accused Israel’s IDF military of halting a logistics convoy. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to the statement.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2196·
    2 months ago

    They are literally attacking the UN and still we are expected to provide unquestioning support?

      • dlatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2713·
        2 months ago

        You know, even though it’s still rewarding Israel’s actions in a way, out of all the support the US is giving, this one I probably mind the least. It will prevent further innocent deaths (regardless of what side they are on, this is always a net positive), and it can’t be used by Israel against the Palestinian and Lebanese people. Let the US take over all of the defense of Israel if it means they stop delivering bombs and missiles that Israel will use to further their genocide.

        • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
          68·
          2 months ago

          That’s not how it will play out. By unconditionally defending Israel from counter-attack they’re emboldening them to keep fighting and provoking whoever they want. The Israelis know they’re immune to any repercussions from their aggression. They have nothing to fear, and will only further their attacks because of it. This will create more innocent deaths, not less.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            Honestly, it makes me pretty angry that we’re providing defensive support like this to Israel, but not to Ukraine. It’s a blatant and huge double standard.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Let me guess, it’s not “boots on the ground”.because they’re wearing sneakers?

      • Dainterhawk999@lemmy.worldBEnglish
        171·
        2 months ago

        Israel is the Grim Reaper for UN. And a beloved adopted child of US who doesn’t care of its actual child UN. What a dysfunctional family

      • shaserlark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        301·
        2 months ago

        I’m telling you to evacuate your house, if you don’t I’ll just fucking kill you. If you don’t evacuate your own house I’ll also call the police and tell them you had it coming because I told you to evacuate and you refused. I see no flaw in your logic at all.

        • WhyFlip@lemmy.worldEnglish
          132·
          2 months ago

          Don’t evacuate, you might be killed. It’s really not that hard of a concept.

          • shaserlark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            211·
            2 months ago

            Yeah no you’re just trying to justify another war crime committed by the settler colonial apartheid genociders.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
            9·
            2 months ago

            The funny thing is that your logic is so poorly thought that you could apply it to all the attacks against Israel.

            “Hey, Israelis, we’re gonna bomb your homes! You better evacuate if you don’t want to die!”

        • WhyFlip@lemmy.worldEnglish
          126·
          2 months ago

          The UN holds zero authority when I’m putting my country’s best interests forward.

          • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            2 months ago

            Just as the rest of the Western world is better served by not getting entangled into the genocidal actions of the religious extremists now running Iran Israel

          • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.mlEnglish
            51·
            2 months ago

            The UN has more athority over Lebenon, than Isreal. Note Hezbula is not a terrorist as they clame but a legitimate party in Lebinan and following lebenise law.

            I also want to point out that the UN was there for the spupervised demiliterization of Hezbula with the assistence of Lebenon, the same reason Isreal is claiming to be attacking… also isreal did do an indiscriminant bombing on civilian centers so I would be a little quiet as your contry is quite literaly being the very open baddy in this situation

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1475·
    2 months ago

    The Zionists don’t want witnesses. Thats why they’ve murdered 170 journalists in Gaza.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      2 months ago

      Why would they care? The whole world is witnessing it and no one is doing anything to stop them.

      • sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        Because it’s easy to pull a trigger to permanently silence people who might become a slight inconvenience at most.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            118·
            2 months ago

            I don’t see how it would do that.

            Edit: Unless you mean its for blowing itself up?

            • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
              18·
              2 months ago

              You clearly aren’t familiar with the French military beyond memes.

              You just need to know 3 words.

              Nuclear Warning Shot.

                • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Mechanically it’s a small nuke on a medium range Air to Surface Missile. They straight up told everyone it’s entire purpose is as “the last warning shot” before their nuclear missile submarines fire their entire load of nuclear ballistic missiles.

                  The other way I’ve heard the French cold war doctrine reasoned is, “we may not be able to stop the Russians at the Fulda Gap, but we’re all going to be picking through the rubble together this time.”

                • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

                  France is one of the five “Nuclear Weapons States” under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.[4][5] France is the only member of the European Union to possess independent (non-NATO) nuclear weapons. France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon, doing so in 1960 under the government of Charles de Gaulle. The French military is currently thought to retain a weapons stockpile of around 300[6] operational (deployed) nuclear warheads, making it the fourth-largest in the world, speaking in terms of warheads, not megatons.[7] The weapons are part of the country’s Force de dissuasion, developed in the late 1950s and 1960s to give France the ability to distance itself from NATO while having a means of nuclear deterrence under sovereign control.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    1143·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact: an Israeli paramilitary assassinated a UN mediator in 1948 because they were afraid his peace deal wouldn’t be good for the Israeli State

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

    The assassination was organized by Yitzhak Shamir, later elected prime minister of Israel.

    Israel has always been terrorists attacking the UN.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1145·
    2 months ago

    Has anyone informed Scorpius?!

    Seriously though, Israel has proven over and over again that it has no respect for the UN whatsoever. Maybe it’s time to kick them out, at least until they have a fucking non-genocidal government.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
    804·
    2 months ago

    This is fucking disgusting, and a testament that Israel believes they have so much control over the narrative by Cambridge Analiticising the major social networks and their owners that they feel they can get away with it. If there’s one thing I agree with Israel now, it’s that the UN was certainly wrong - by choosing after WW2, to legitimize the Nazi Haavara Agreements on partitioning Mandatory Palestine and enabling the neocolonialism that became Israel hidden under the faint veil of religious superiority claims. What the persecuted minorities needed were their homes and their wealth back, not an appointed figurehead to lead them into colonialism 2.0.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      625·
      2 months ago

      They’re controlling the narrative by learning who will vote for who in the US by using “which harry Potter character are you” apps on Facebook?

      I don’t see the connection between Israeli Hasbara and what Cambridge Analytica did.

  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    731·
    2 months ago

    In its version of events, the Israeli military said militants of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah had fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli troops, wounding 25 of them. The attack was very close to a UNIFIL post and a tank helping evacuate the casualties under fire then backed into the UNIFIL post, it said. “It is not storming a base. It is not trying to enter a base. It was a tank under heavy fire, mass casualty event, backing up to get out of harm’s way,” the military’s international spokesperson Nadav Shoshani told reporters. In a statement, the military said it used a smoke screen to provide cover for the evacuation of the wounded soldiers but its actions posed no danger to the U.N. peacekeeping force.

    OK, sounds plausible enough…

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: “The time has come for you to withdraw UNIFIL from Hezbollah strongholds and from the combat zones.” "The IDF has requested this repeatedly and has met with repeated refusal, which has the effect of providing Hezbollah terrorists with human shields

    You want to have your cake and eat it too. Why do you want the peacekeepers out? Why not coordinate with them?

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      874·
      2 months ago

      Why do you want the peacekeepers out? Why not coordinate with them?

      Because the Peacekeepers aren’t there to fight a war, that’s not their role. The real question is, what are they still there for? There is no real answer from the UN about this. Their mission was to try to disarm Hezbollah, which they clearly they didn’t accomplish. Now Hezbollah is using the weapons the UN was supposed to remove (but didn’t) to fight the IDF. And the UN is apparently just going to leave Peacekeepers stranded in the middle of a warzone because they’re still pretending there isn’t a war happening? Or are they hoping for a conflict to occur between the Peacekeeping force and the IDF? Like is the UN now trying to escalate the conflict? Really, what are they trying to accomplish?

      Sure, never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence and the UN is a very incompetent organization. But this is getting so it goes beyond being able to be explained by incompetence.

    • DarthJon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      379·
      2 months ago

      They want them out because they don’t want them caught in the crossfire. They serve no purpose there, so might as well GTFO before they get killed.

        • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          541·
          2 months ago

          Their job is to record war crimes. Israel doesn’t like when people record their war crimes. Thats why they’ve murdered hundreds (thousands?) of journalists

            • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
              27·
              2 months ago

              Well there’s some. France has stopped sending weapons. Ireland has issued sanctions. The South Africans have fucking brought them to court for genocide. Nicaragua just cut diplomatic ties.

              There’s been varying degrees of consequences from maybe a quarter of the world’s countries.

              But we need more, of course. Especially from the US.

      • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        2 months ago

        They don’t want to be observed. Just as with Gaza where they won’t let foriegn journalists in

      • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        The UN Peace Keeping Force is there for a number of things, but mainly to Keep the Peace.

        They help citizens in a crisis, they monitor for illegal activity (including war crimes), and help with aid distribution. Their efforts are being hindered by the idf:

        UNIFIL has said previous Israeli attacks on a watchtower, cameras, communications equipment and lighting had limited its monitoring abilities. U.N. sources say they fear any violations of international law in the conflict will be impossible to monitor.

  • blady_blah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    2 months ago

    “We don’t want witnesses to our human rights violations. These ‘accidents’ will keep happening until you leave.”

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    2 months ago

    Wait like the Actual UN?

    I get that the UN has no real teeth, but the peacekeepers do have teeth.

    The fuck is going on anymore. Like I get they have all sorts of freedom to fuck around because they have weapons given to them with no control over their use, but this seems to me they are truly beginning to test their fate.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      261·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, but this isn’t new. The Israeli paramilitary assassinated a UN mediator in 1948 because they were afraid his peace deal wouldn’t be good for the Israeli State

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

      The assassination was organized by Yitzhak Shamir, who was later elected as Israel’s prime minister.

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        1948 is a big stretch for me to agree with “isn’t new.” No one alive today would have been influential then, and many countries have significantly changed in that region of the world since 1948.

        Now if stuff like this happened in the 80s, then I’d say yeah, 100% this is up their alley.

    • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      2 months ago

      oh it gets worse. The US is sending in ground troops to help. Missile defense ground troops, but ground troops all the same. When a few of them get killed (in some fog of war event, I’m sure) we’ll send in a large armed contingent to “protect our lads”.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        My personal nightmare theory is Netanyahu believes one of two things. Biden will not stop him because he believes Israel must be supported at all costs or Biden believes he cannot take action against Israel until after the election. So it is Netanyahu’s goal to start a war with Iran before the election, and make sure the US is drawn in.

        In this case we know the troops were not Biden’s idea. Netanyahu specifically requested them. And for either of the reasons above Biden immediately approved the request.

        I sincerely hope it’s just depression thoughts. But I will not be surprised if we end up pulled into a war with Iran just before or during the traditional lame duck period. Obviously if Trump wins this is all even worse. But putting troops under Iranian missiles is a breathtaking escalation of the conflict.

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 months ago

        I’m pretty sure the US is only interested in doing that to protect US assets in Israel. There’s a shitload of money and intelligence there,

        But the part that bothers me is that Israel already has an insane missile defence system why the fuck do they need the US resources on top of that?

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. We’ve been warned multiple times over the past couple decades that the Israeli far right has expansion on the agenda. And we derided them as conspiracy theorists and/or terrorist apologists.

      Well. Here we are.

    • erez@programming.devEnglish
      48·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know if anyone here is interested in uncomfortable facts, but I’ll try my luck: UNIFIL has been neglecting their job for the past 18 years, and especially in the past year. Hezbollah has been firing rockets on Israel daily, directly from UNIFIL territory, and UNIFIL has done nothing to hinder them. The IDF revealed yesterday, with video proof, the existence of a tunnel entrance into a Hezbollah bunker, 100 meters away from a UNIFIL base, and 60 meters from a UNIFIL guard tower. It’s becoming apparent that UNIFIL isn’t truly neutral, and if they are that neglectful or incompetent, staying there puts them at risk, while Israel fights back.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    654·
    2 months ago

    The spoiled child of the middle east throwing a temper tantrum that has hurt people.

    Now what will Biden do to reign in Bibi and his mercenaries?

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
      283·
      2 months ago

      Nothing. It’s election year. If Biden does something, then Harris is going to be asked to up the ante which could be criticized as a running promise that might not be followed up on and cost her points

      That’s the only credit I will give Trump. He’s not afraid to throw guarantees and promises around like they’re Halloween candy. Now him following up on them (especially that don’t benefit him or his friends) is a different story…

    • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Its faster to quantify what Biden would Not do for Netenyahu than figure out what he will do. i cant think of a single thing Biden wouldnt do if Netenyahu told him to. He’d cheerfully drop to his knees and felate the entire IDF if told to, and then write Netenyahu another check of our tax money, to thank the IDF for the opportunity.