Several UN countries joined Netanyahu’s request for explanations. They demand that attacks against UNIFIL troops deployed there: there are already three attacks against peacekeepers. Netanyahu has no intention of backing down. Additionally, he asked them to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
It might be an accident if it happened just once, but there have now been three Israeli attacks on United Nations troops deployed on a peace mission in Lebanon. The condemnation, also from Spain, is unanimous with repeated nuance. For the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, “it is unacceptable “The opening of fire on the positions of the UNIFIL by Israel.” The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, expressed herself in the same sense: “Spain has 650 soldiers in the contingent, this is unacceptable from the from Israel.
Despite requests from the United States and even a personal appeal from the Italian Meloni, Netanyahu does not turn a deaf ear, he says it very clearly: asks peacekeepers to leave the area who now wants to attack.
In a video shared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he demanded, “Mr. Secretary-General, keep UN forces out of harm’s way.” All this under the pretext of sending their displaced people back to northern Israel.
As professor of economic theory at UAM, Óscar Vara, explains, “They don’t want to have witnesses and they are pushing for voluntary departure. Thus, the director of “La Salle Politique”, Yago Rodríguez, insists on the fact that “they advocate a withdrawal of contingents with increasingly aggressive measures”.
Even the Israeli army itself is hinting at collaboration between these UN troops and Hezbollah. The commander of the Israeli army, Yiftach Nurkin, assures that “it is very strange that the UN base did not see this activity of Hezbollah”. An uncomfortable international presence, as has already happened for Netanyahu and UNRWA collaborators in Gaza.
