Really, I think we're into ironic notation territory here. Sort of like awarding Barack Obama (not to mention Henry Kissinger) the Nobel Peace Prize. We're calling these UN forces "peacekeepers." Don't we have to HAVE peace before we can keep it?UN peacekeepers captured the moment shells hit their position in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the day their Spanish colleague was killed. The footage suggests Israeli artillery, retaliating against Hezbollah rocket attack, might be responsible.
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The cell phone footage shows two United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers talking in their car next to a watchtower, as the whistling of the first artillery shell is heard in the background. Aiming the camera at the wall which separates Lebanon from Israeli territory, one of the soldiers says: “They're falling from Israel, man!”
“Hush, hush, let’s see...they’re falling from...How can that be? It cannot be that, huh?,” responds the other peacekeeper.
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Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said it “most likely” came from Israel.
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Spanish El Pas reported that the Israeli army warned the UNIFIL contingent of the retaliatory strikes, some 20 minutes before shells started falling from the sky. However, the Israeli army said its operation would target the area of the Shebaa Farms – but said nothing about shelling Ghajar village.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, deployed since 1978, includes 600 Spanish soldiers out of a 10,000-strong force.
RT
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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