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UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base
(www.reuters.com)
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OK, sounds plausible enough...
You want to have your cake and eat it too. Why do you want the peacekeepers out? Why not coordinate with them?
“I was just taking my tank platoon for a stroll on your lawn”
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.
The UNIFIL mandate is clear and well known. You can read it for yourself if you actually cared. Hezbollah is not mentioned anywhere on the page funnily enough.
Yeah, is the UN trying to escalate the conflict by being attacked, blown up and chemical weapon'd by Israel?
I bet that damn UN is going to get away with it too!
Maybe the zios should stop their genocide instead?
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.
Why would Israel be shooting at peacekeeping forces???
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
Also because we all let them get away with it with no consequences.
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.
They don't want to be observed. Just as with Gaza where they won't let foriegn journalists in
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: