Israel warns UN with double attack on Guterres’ headquarters in Lebanon after vetoing him

On Thursday alone, Israel fired on two UN bases in the morning, and in the afternoon shelled a neighborhood in Beirut considered safe. At around 7:30 pm, two missiles fell on the neighborhoods of Nuerre and Ras al-Nabeh, where Israel had tried to ‘eliminate’ more than one Hezbollah commander. According to three security sources, the biggest target of these attacks was Wafik Safa, the director of Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination unit in charge of cooperation with Lebanese security agencies.

Safa’s assassination attempt represents an expansion of Israeli targets at Hezbollah, which until now focused on the group’s military commanders and senior leaders. According to Thursday night’s report, Safa survived. But that was not the case for at least 22 people who were in the bombing zone. These include a family of eight displaced from southern Lebanon in the capital. At least 117 people have also been injured in the attacks.

A few hours before the attacks in these areas of Beirut, very close to the city center, Israel attacked the base of the United Nations Mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL. In Nakoura, on the Lebanese side of the border, an Israeli tank fired on a watchtower, wounding two Indonesian peacekeepers. On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Forces “deliberately shot down and disabled” cameras already monitoring the area, in order to “make it more difficult to control that Israel respects international law,” a UNIFIL spokesperson said. Andrea Tennanti said.

Tencent announced this Thursday that the “incident” that occurred in Nakoura was “one of the most serious we have seen in the last 12 months.” He also made clear that UN peacekeeping forces are committed to remaining in their positions in southern Lebanon: “We are here because the (UN) Security Council has asked us to do so. “So we will stay put until the situation prevents us from operating.”

The 50 countries contributing to UNIFIL agreed on Thursday to maintain the deployment of more than 10,400 peacekeepers between the Litani River in the north and the UN-recognized border between Lebanon and Israel, known as the Blue Line. Had expressed. However, UNIFIL can barely fulfill its mission of keeping the south of the country free of weapons and armed personnel that do not belong to the Lebanese state. Since the resolutions that gave it its current form in 2006, the area in which the Blue Helmets operate has been de facto controlled by Hezbollah. Furthermore, in recent weeks, UN forces have been unable to stop Israel’s slow but progressive ground offensive on Lebanon.

EL ESPAÑOL’s sources have confirmed that Spanish soldiers in the region have been sheltered in bunkers for several weeks, unable to carry out their missions or serve the small population that has crossed the border with Israel. Have decided not to flee the nearest southern Lebanese cities. “You can only go out in search of supplies, and only if Israel gives the green light,” confirmed a source, adding that most of the battalion’s neighbors are Christian Lebanese.

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In his speech on Thursday, Tennenty also said that some bases were hosting displaced Lebanese people from areas attacked by Israel. And there’s Netanyahu’s army hiding: Israel Defense Forces accused Hezbollah of “operating” near UNIFIL checkpoints in southern Lebanon after this week’s attack.

The rhetoric is reminiscent of what Tel Aviv has used over the past twelve months against UNRWA, its equivalent of UNIFIL in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the war, Israel has accused peacekeeping forces in the Palestinian Territory of harboring Hamas artillery in their facilities, as well as having Hamas fighters among their personnel.

Tensions between Netanyahu’s government and the United Nations led Israel to declare the international organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata on October 2. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz then accused Guterres of failing to “unequivocally” condemn Iran’s missile attack on Israel earlier this month. Katz published in Will be missed.”

If 226 UNRWA workers have been killed in Gaza last year, the first humanitarian worker has already died in Lebanon. On Thursday, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix acknowledged before the Security Council that UNIFIL’s more than 10,400 peacekeepers “are increasingly at risk.”