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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.

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[–] [email protected] 214 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The UN troops have the right to defend themselves.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Especially with the Leclercs.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 month ago (39 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

“I was just taking my tank platoon for a stroll on your lawn”

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

"We don't want witnesses to our human rights violations. These 'accidents' will keep happening until you leave."

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

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".

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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...

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you were joking, but thats what Israel has claimed, many times.

Israel calls UN a ‘terror organisation’ as tensions escalate over Gaza war

Ambassador to the global body accuses it of being a ‘collaborator with Hamas’

https://www.ft.com/content/f0945f3c-e4ab-4c04-8e1e-1e6f8397cb2c

Israeli terrorism has no boundairies and is not limited to Arabs.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Fascists gonna fash.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

This is how Israel does diplomacy. They are trying to de-escalate through escalation.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Fucking terrorists

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

They're acting like a bratty kid. Wtf

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Netanyahu needs to be drone striked.

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