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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[–] 215 points 2 years ago (21 children)

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

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    [–] 145 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 135 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The UN troops have the right to defend themselves.

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  • [–] 115 points 2 years ago (40 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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    [–] 114 points 2 years ago*

    Fun fact: an Israeli paramilitary assassinated a UN mediator in 1948 because they were afraid his peace deal wouldn't be good for the Israeli State

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

    The assassination was organized by Yitzhak Shamir, later elected prime minister of Israel.

    Zionists have always been terrorists, attacking the UN since before they were even given an official State.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (12 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?

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    [–] 70 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (11 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.

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    [–] [S] 62 points 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Fascists gonna fash.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Fucking terrorists

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  • [+] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Netanyahu needs to be drone striked.

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