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| UNIFIL confirms tunnel filled with cement by IDF crossed border, broke UN rules | |
| 2018-12-30 | |
United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping forces on the Israeli-Lebanese border on Saturday confirmed that a tunnel filled up and destroyed by the Israeli army a day earlier had crossed the border into the Jewish state and was in "violation of resolution 1701," the UN decision that ended 2006’s Second Leb War. It was the third such tunnel that UNIFIL forces confirmed crossed over the Blue Line, which demarcates the internationally recognized border, out of five that the Israel Defense Forces have so far said they have uncovered. UNIFIL has not confirmed Israel’s allegations they were dug by Hezbollah. The IDF on Friday said it poured an unspecified "liquid" into the underground passage to block it, and aired footage of people in the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila reacting to an overflow of viscous material, that some media reports said was cement. UNIFIL’s statement on Saturday said that the tunnel opening in Kafr Kila had been inside a cement factory, indicating that the material could have been a mixture of both substances. "In the course of the ongoing investigation into the presence of tunnels along the Blue Line, UNIFIL together with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) surveyed the premises of an old concrete factory in the southern part of [Kafr Kila], after UNIFIL had observed liquified cement flowing out from the building within this facility," the peacekeepers said. "The liquid overflowing on the Lebanese side had been injected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through a shaft drilled on their end of a tunnel that UNIFIL had previously independently confirmed to be crossing the Blue Line in the same general area. Based on this observation, UNIFIL can confirm that the old concrete factory in [the village] has an opening to the tunnel, which is crossing the Blue Line." UNIFIL it was working with the Lebanese army to address the violation of the 2006 ceasefire agreement. UNIFIL added that it had been informed by the IDF on Wednesday of another operation to destroy a tunnel near the Lebanese village of Ayta ash Shab, but that it had not been reported to UN forces prior to its destruction. "Therefore, it’s existence has not been independently verified by UNIFIL." The next day "UNIFIL conducted a post-blast assessment and observed a crater in the area." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 because of the crater a bit after concrete was seen oozing out. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-12-30 13:09 |
| #3 Why, was it Kosher cement or something? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-12-30 12:08 |
| #2 Does liquid cement mix with ammonium-nitrate slurry? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-12-30 11:05 |
| #1 No. No it did not. Next? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-12-30 00:17 |