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IDF says UN peacekeepers in Lebanon were hit by Hezbollah roadside bomb

2024-04-04

[IsraelTimes] Military had already denied claims it carried out March 30 strike in Rmeish, in which four UNTSO members were maimed

A group of United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
peacekeepers maimed in a blast in southern Leb
Leb

...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Rmeish on Saturday that Lebanese officials blamed on Israel were hit by a Hezbollah roadside kaboom, the Israeli military said Wednesday.

Shortly after the March 30 incident, the Israel Defense Forces denied carrying out any strikes in the Rmeish area. Hezbollah-linked media and security sources speaking to Rooters had claimed that the IDF carried out a dronezap on a vehicle with four UN employees.

The IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, said Wednesday in a post on X that according to the latest information available to the military, the UN peacekeepers were maimed by "an bomb that had been planted by Hezbollah in the area."

According to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the three military observers — from Australia, Chile, and Norway — and a Lebanese translator were carrying out a foot patrol and were not in a vehicle as the initial reports suggested.

UNTSO said they were maimed after a "shell went kaboom! near their location."

An ongoing Lebanese army investigation determined that a landmine was the cause of the blast, a judicial official said Wednesday,

"Preliminary results of a Lebanese army investigation have found that the observers were maimed by a landmine," the Lebanese official told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The ongoing investigation by the Lebanese army and peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had yet to determine who planted the mine, the official added, noting three mines were in the area, "one of which went kaboom!."

The observers from UNTSO, which supports UNIFIL, had been on a foot patrol along the so-called Blue Line — the UN-demarcated border between Lebanon and Israel, the peacekeepers said.

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