Ban Ki Moon hints Israel deliberately targeted south UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

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A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper looks to the U.N-demarcated "Blue Line" border between Lebanon and Israel, during a foot patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms area of southeast Lebanon, Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

BEIRUT: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hinted that Israel deliberately targeted a UNIFIL base during last month’s hostilities along Lebanon’s southern border which left one peacekeeper dead.

Ban was cited by An-Nahar Saturday as condemning the killing of a Spanish UNIFIL peacekeeper who died during Israeli shelling of Lebanon's southern border last month, saying that “the incident happened at a UNIFIL base which is known perfectly by Israeli forces.”

During Israel’s bombardment, the observation tower of a Spanish UNIFIL position in Abbasieh, one kilometer east of Ghajar, took a direct hit from an artillery shell, killing Cpl. Francisco Javier Soria Toledo.

A report prepared by U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag submitted Friday to the U.N. Security Council held Israel fully liable for the death of the peacekeeper, An-Nahar reported.

Last month, Hezbollah attacked a military convoy in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, killing two soldiers and wounding several others. The attack came in response to an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s Golan Heights town of Qunaitra 10 days earlier which targeted a Hezbollah convoy, killing six party fighters and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander.

U.N. members in Lebanon have a long history of coming under attack by Israeli forces. Four U.N. observers were killed in an Israeli air attack on their post in Khiam, southern Lebanon, in the 2006 war. Then-U.N. chief Kofi Annan at the time said the attack appeared "deliberate."

A French U.N. observer was killed in 2005 beside the Shebaa Farms by an Israeli tank round.

The most notorious incident was in April 1996 when Israeli artillery shells hit the Fijian battalion headquarters in Qana, killing 107 civilians.



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[Khalid Newazi]

And Israel will be rewarded by NATO for this with a subsidized defence contract.

 

[haviZsultan]

Israel is like a naughty child with a gun in his hand. It can and will do anything without the UN or US raising an eyelash.