The UN’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, said Thursday that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers fired on its positions multiple times, and two peacekeepers were wounded by an Israeli tank.
UNIFIL said its headquarters in the town of Naqoura and several nearby positions came under repeated Israeli attacks.
“This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall,” UNIFIL said in a statement.
UNIFIL said the injuries were not serious, but the two wounded peacekeepers remain in the hospital. The statement said the IDF also fired on a UN position in the town of Labbouneh, “hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering and damaging vehicles and a communications system.”
A day earlier, UNIFIL said Israeli troops “deliberately fired at and disabled the position’s perimeter-monitoring cameras.”
The Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers came after the Israeli military told UNIFIL to abandon its positions in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL and Ireland, which has a number of peacekeepers deployed in the area, both rejected the Israeli call. The Irish Times reported that no Irish peacekeepers were wounded by the Israeli attack.
It’s estimated about 15,000 Israeli troops have invaded southern Lebanon, where they are engaging in battles with Hezbollah fighters. Israeli airstrikes also continue to pound Lebanon, with dozens of people being killed every day.
Over/under on Netanyahu shooting himself in the head inside a bunker?
Betting ends when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard "Red Army" reaches east Tel Aviv. After that point, it's a sure thing.
There are some good news: according to Scott Ritter, Iran has nuclear weapons already. Let's hope it is true. Anyway Iran has capacity to make it, and also Iran had plenty of time to prepare for a serious war with Israel and NATO. And of course Russia will stay with Iran.
Link? I would've thought that was big news.
Watch on YouTube Danny Haiphong:
"Scott Ritter: Putin & Iran Order EMERGENCY Meeting, Israel LOSING Hezbollah War – Game Over IDF"
In first 20 minutes Scott Ritter explained everything.
I finally got around to checking it out today. I was kind of expecting something else. Ritter sounds as smart and lucid as ever, and cites his sources (verbally), which are official statements by the Iranians. Yes, it's reading between the lines, and they might be designed to convey the same sort of ambiguity Israel itself has projected over the decades. It's Ritter's own interpretation that the Iranians already have the Bomb. I would suggest maybe they just want Israel to think that. But Ritter might be right. I think it's more likely they could now have been working on it for some time.
Either way, it's the only thing that makes sense. It's the only thing that would make Israel hesitate to attack Iran. We've been anticipating the big retaliation, and personally I've wondered why they haven't moved already. Ritter may well be saying what they are thinking.
So for a bit of fun, I chatted with Meta AI about this, and it offered odds as follows: 60% that Iran has deliberately been signalling the possibility as a form of deterrence, 30% chance that the fatwa is actually still in place, and 10% that Ritter is on the money. I think the lack of any obvious signs of a bomb blast weighs against it, although transfer from the Russians is a distinct possibility.
What’s Ritter’s evidence ? Has the IRI refused access to ANY of its nuclear facilities ? Is there a discrepancy in their nuclear fuels inventory ? Is there evidence they have refined Uranium past 60% ? Is there definitive seismic evidence from multiple reliable sources to indicate that a nuclear detonation has taken place beyond reasonable doubt (recalling that Iran is a seismically active country) and that data exclusively indicates a subterranean test & rules out any natural cause ?
It has been noted that the area where the shaking happened is an area that is not noted for having earthquakes.
It could be done much simpler. Russian specialists could help Iran to create nukes.
Recently Russia officially recognized North Korea as nuclear power. Also Russia provided Belarus with tactical nukes which Belarus has right to use if attacked. Also it is quite remarkably that Houthis not long time ago used hypersonic missile against Israel. Maybe Iran helped Houthis to make it, or, maybe, Russia. We don't know. What is funny. Houthis got hypersonic missiles before U.S. That is Russian response to NATO aggression. I think, it is a clever move. It is the only way to avoid a big nuclear war between superpowers which can destroy everything.
East Tel Aviv? That would be Washington D.C. 😉
Nutty will not do it. Very likely someone else will do it under order from someone like a gallant
Agreed. EVIL never dies on its own. It has to kill all the GOOD first.
Hey, it's entirely possible the IDF troops missed seeing the blue helmets and huge flags, and thought the observation positions were spying on plans to execute POW's. And only stopped when a brave UNIFIL sailor managed to reconnect a critical cable & the UN people could blast an SOS to the US Sixth Fleet, who launched support aircraft only for Vice-Admiral Martin to recall them shortly after.
I mean, look at their history (and Oct 7th) – the IDF makes fatal mistakes ALL the time. And gets away with it.
Yes, and it is entirely possible that ISR missed seeing the 24 ft flag on the USS Liberty before opening fire. <SARC>
Opened fire for hours, even machine gunning American sailors as the were in the water or in life boats. Israel wanted that ship sunk. Johnson was a coward for calling back American Navy fighter jets one their way to intercept the Israeli attackers.
"I mean, look at their history (and Oct 7th) – the IDF makes fatal mistakes ALL the time." I would go further. You are more likely to die from an Israeli "mistake" if you were an innocent civilian than if you were a combatant.
Exactly my point !
"have invaded southern Lebanon"
My understanding is that is incorrect. According to Jon Elmers in yesterday's Electronic Intifada live stream, so far the Israelis have only penetrated a few hundred meters across the "Blue Line" which is not actually the border of Lebanon but the contested area monitored by the UNIFIL forces. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(withdrawal_line) It's supposed to be close to the internationally recognized border of Lebanon, but does not include the Shebaa Farms and several other areas.
More importantly, as Elmers reports, the Israelis barely made it across the Blue Line when they were hit by Hezbollah forces. The Israelis are taking casualties, and have lost armored vehicles (one of their remote-controlled M113 personnel carriers – used for blowing up buildings in Gaza and now part of the Lebanon incursion – was captured). Hezbollah has also been hitting Israeli medical staging areas, according to Elmers, who said Hamas hasn't been doing that for the past year, but Hezbollah has.
So far, as Elmers pointed out, this is not an invasion but a series of raids into the Blue Line ostensibly to try to carve out a 30km buffer zone inside Lebanon and force Hezbollah out of that zone so the Israelis can bring back the displaced Israeli citizens to their towns in the north of Israel.
As I like to say, "That Ain't Gonna Happen."
Also it will be interesting how the UN views Israel firing on UN troops. Given that the US will veto anything in the UNSC, it only solidifies how the UN is now utterly useless (not that it wasn't before.)
One also wonders how the Russians and Chinese will view this uselessness at the UN since they've been wasting enormous amounts of time trying to get something going there over this conflict.
Undoubtedly this is precisely WHY Israel fired on UNIFIL – to mock the UN and prove that it's useless and prove its impunity.
American barbarians seek war. Russian and Chinese efforts to build nonviolent solidarity among united nations cooperating in peaceful development is real and honorable achievement.
1947: The Irgun, Avraham Stern and the Haganah terrorist gangs shot at and forced the British Mandate Police and soldiers to leave Palestine.
The Mandate Police in Palestine served as constables for the Palestine Government's High Commissioner in towns and villages of the Mandate designated by His Majesty's Government under authorization of the League of Nations and later the United Nations.
The Zionist Avraham Stern forces had a total disregard for innocent live and a disregard for law in a refusal to let the British Mandate Palestine Government legal system operate. (A History Lesson: What ISIS Learned from IRGUN, By William A. Cook, November 3, 2014)
Well the UN peacekeepers likely had it coming. After all, some of them might have harbored “anti Semitic” feelings at some point in their lives, or at least disagreed with Israel’s right to commit a genocide on those who disagree with its God Given right to ethnically cleanse Palestine. For all we know, these so called “peacekeepers” likely supported humanitarian aid into Israel, which as we all know is run by people that are 0.000004% affiliated with Hamas.
Israel might say, " they chose to be there…." Like this guy.
https://youtu.be/Pn0WdJx-Wkw?si=RyXwor0MigTSjR0P
History repeats. In 1947 the Zionists fired on British positions. If the UN was not in the control of the U.S., a much larger order of peacekeepers would be dispatched to take on the IDF.
Zionist controlled Israel has no morals, no respect for laws, no respect for human life.
With each American bullet that kills a Palestinian the Empire crumbles and the supply going to Israel is endless.
The U.N peacekeepers are like a mall security, they carry a badge and a walkie-talkies to call for the real cops.
What was it again? That's the religion of love, or something like that?
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1845238724361179564?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I can't believe he believes that.
Former White House advisor Matthew Brodsky has urged Israel to drop napalm on Irish peacekeepers in South Lebanon…
Brodsky’s role as an advisor to the White House, particularly on matters related to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process..
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241010-us-former-white-house-advisor-urges-israel-to-carpet-bomb-irish-peacekeepers-in-lebanon/
I recall Israelis attacking blue helmets before years ago, it is not the first time. The Israelis have been getting away with war crimes and terrorism and torture even before there was an Israel with impunity. All with the knowledge of the Americans and western democracies. And it was always swept under the carpet as fast as possible.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150168710
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