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Irish peacekeepers have been helping defend south Lebanon for so long many english speakers there speak with a full blown Irish accent. (xcancel.com)

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[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

one of my friends dads was deployed there in the 80s. he said one time the Zionists killed 3 French guys he was deployed with and it got covered up. it's happened a number of times with the UN I think.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

Small anecdote from wikipedia about Norwegian troops in the 1990s helping prisoners escape an israeli blacksite in Lebanon

A 2010 book published by Norwegian journalist Odd Karsten Tveit revealed that the Norwegian Army was complicit in the escape of two Lebanese men who were arrested by the Israeli Army and being held in Khiam prison. According to the book, in 1992, two detained Lebanese men escaped from Khiam prison. Fearing that they would face torture or execution if caught by the Israel Defense Forces or South Lebanon Army, the soldiers dressed the detainees in UN uniforms, and placed them in a UNIFIL convoy which left Southern Lebanon through Israeli roadblocks. Shortly afterward, Israeli Army commander Moshe Tamir visited the Norwegian battalion's camp, and accused Norwegian commander Hagrup Haukland of "sheltering terrorists". Immediately after the confrontation, the Lebanese men were smuggled onto a bus used by Norwegian peacekeepers on leave, which took them to Beirut.

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

this was under criticisms of UNIFIL, and I'm posting it to demonstrate its an open secret how fucked the idf is