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.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    138 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?

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      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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      108 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.

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    1368 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]B
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        198 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

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        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.

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            98 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!”

          • @[email protected]
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            228 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            148 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

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            58 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

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        188 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.

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          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.

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            218 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.

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    158 months ago

    Im so shocked, its almost as if international law is made up by the global north in order to justify oppressing the global south while taking no accountability.

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    78 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.

    .ml users called it over the weekend.

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      So the UNIFIL report just doesn’t mention the combat taking place so close to their base that an Israeli tank accidentally backed up into their main gate during retreat?

      Yeah, sure.

  • @[email protected]
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    748 months ago

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

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      348 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        278 months ago

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

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            I don’t see how it would do that.

            Edit: Unless you mean its for blowing itself up?

            • @[email protected]
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              198 months ago

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

              You just need to know 3 words.

              Nuclear Warning Shot.

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                I’d like to be enlightened on the “nuclear warning shot” method the French have

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                  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.

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                  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.”

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    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.

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      88 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.

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    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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    58 months ago

    Why are are even calling them UN peacekeepers if they prevent violence from one side, but allow it on the other?

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      If they’re indeed peacekeepers, then they failed their job miserably. As it stands, their only usefulness is being human shields for Hezbollah.

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        118 months ago

        Their job isn’t to stop war crimes. Their job is go record war crimes and report back to the UN, where the world’s job is to use this information to stop future war crimes by diplomatic or violent methods

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          18 months ago

          Then maybe they should identify themselves as war inspectors or historians? “Peacekeepers” is kinda misleading…

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            That’s what a peacekeeper is. Thats literally what a peacekeeper does.

            Peacekeepers aren’t people who use violence to keep peace. They are people who use nonviolence to keep peace, diplomatically.

            The word for what you’re thinking of is “soldier”

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              18 months ago

              The moment Hezbollah resorted to launching missiles at Israeli territory, and Israel fought back, then diplomacy failed already.

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        If they’re indeed peacekeepers, then they failed their job miserably. As it stands, their only usefulness is being human shields for Hezbollah.

        How many Hezbollah are you saying were in the UN base when Israeli tanks broke through the gates?

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      18 months ago

      I’d rather he be dropped off in the middle of Gaza with no security. Let him sow what he has reaped.