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Two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have been wounded by Israeli fire, the mission said on Thursday, as Israel's military ground operations in the country continued.

In a statement, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said two of its members were wounded after a Merkava tank fired towards an observation tower at Unifil headquarters in Naqoura, "directly hitting it and causing them to fall".

"[Israeli] soldiers also fired on UN position (UNP) 1-31 in Labbouneh, hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system," said the peacekeeping mission.

"An IDF drone was observed flying inside the UN position up to the bunker entrance."

Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past month, including a bombing campaign and ground invasion, have killed over 1,200 people and displaced one million.

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[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago

the countires those soldiers are from should bring in some jets and take care of that problem. Putitng up with being shot by far right wing fascists is some shameful bullshit.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fact is Israel will only stop when they are made to stop. They will keep pushing it farther and farther until they fuck up and mess with someone able to hurt them bad. Until then they are untouchable and it might be a long time. But Israel has already doomed its own long-term existence, they're just too dumb to see it.

My money is on them pulling a military stunt, accidental or not involving Turkye and then finding out. Turkye has the means to make them shit their breaches and there's no way in hell the US is doing anything militarily against them and risking loosing a key member of NATO to Russia. If Turkye closes the Bosphorus, the Bosphorus stays closed and nobody has the means to forcibly open it short of using nukes.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 4 points 6 days ago

I don't think anyone on the UN is ready to declare war on the United States, no matter how much we deserve it.

[-] aquafunk@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 days ago

oh how nice it would be to see the world unite as one just to take us (the USA) down a peg. I feel like russia and china are really dropping the ball lately

oh, wait lol theyre also run by egomaniacal baffoons :shrug:

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's not how our wars are fought now. We are already in a war with China over the global economy. We are so dependent on them that they could cripple us at the snap of a finger.

Go gander around your home and look at the labels on all of your products, even the ones designed in the US were made in China (your phone and computer)

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

"Sorry Captain, it was dark and in that angle he looked so much like an hospital"

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago
[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't forget that Israeli affiliated militias assassinated their UN negotiator in 1948.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

The leader of the assassination plot was the future founder of the modern Likud party and future prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He lead the Likud party until 1993 when Netanyahu took over. His Wikipedia page is absolutely fucked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir

This and their attacks on the UNRWA are far from the first times Israel has been at war with the UN.

[-] Foni@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the US will protest this time with real energy and will then send another billion in military equipment.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I’m sure the US will protest this time with real energy

Are you thinking 'sternly worded memo' or 'a leak that Biden is outraged behind the scenes', but not officially? Those seem extreme.

How about one or all 3 of these:

  1. We order 100 pizzas to the Netenyahu family house that they didnt even order themselves, and leak a photo of Biden on the phone to the media. We'll pay for those pizzas of course.
  2. We could also send a prepaid hot stone masseuse to their home who also had a mildly questionable political bumper sticker on their car.
  3. We could send the far right Israel government leaders on a luxury vacation, but ensure that the little bottles of alchohol in first class on the plane are extra small sized. I've never been in first class myself, but I can imagine that would be extremely frustrating.
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every bill will have “Knock it off!” written on it. In bold face!

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