Thursday, July 27, 2006
Charles has been doing an excellent job following this: Hizballah Attacked UNIFIL Twice This Week
Neither the mainstream media nor Kofi Annan have mentioned it, but Hizballah has attacked UNIFIL observers twice this week. (Hat tip: Larry.)
From the UN’s own press releases:
24 July 2006:
One unarmed UN military observer, a member of the Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), was seriously wounded by small arms fire in the patrol base in the Marun Al Ras area yesterday afternoon. According to preliminary reports, the fire originated from the Hezbollah side during an exchange with the IDF. He was evacuated by the UN to the Israeli side, from where he was taken by an IDF ambulance helicopter to a hospital in Haifa. He was operated on, and his condition is now reported as stable.
Notice: in this instance, the UN observer was injured badly enough to be evacuated to an Israeli hospital. Where they saved his life.
Not a word of condemnation from Kofi Annan for Hizballah. And not a word of gratitude for Israel, for saving a UN peacekeeper’s life...
More.
Update: More.
Was the attack on the UN staff by Hezbollah deliberate, or was it accidental? Was anyone actually killed? Was Hezbollah notified 16 times that they were shooting at UN staff? Does Hezbollah have precision-guided weapons, as does Israel? The anger directed at Israel for the death of the four UN employees is not simply because they were killed. It is also because the attack was, by all appearances, deliberate. The Israelis were notified 16 times that they were attacking UN staff and they still did not stop.