UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base
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.
Why are are even calling them UN peacekeepers if they prevent violence from one side, but allow it on the other?
I mean they're not preventing violence period. They're just... there.
Its important to have independent folks there to monitor for war crimes.
Not like Israel cares, but it's better to have witnesses I guess.
They're observers
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?
Human what the fuck? No seriously, how does that even make sense?
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
Then maybe they should identify themselves as war inspectors or historians? "Peacekeepers" is kinda misleading...
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"
The moment Hezbollah resorted to launching missiles at Israeli territory, and Israel fought back, then diplomacy failed already.
"I would prefer to see a bit more violence from those supposed 'Peacekeepers.'"