I can’t get rid of the images of a group of civilians insulting the soldiers of a convoy of UNIFIL (or Unifil), the United Nations Force in Lebanon, hitting their vehicles and even trying to set them on fire. Come on, they don’t seem to have any respect for them. Honey, less. And these forces could not have been more docile and more calming.
Barracks on the border with Israel, they faced with exemplary caution the continuous firing of projectiles, rockets and missiles towards the Hebrew country by the terrorists of Hezbollah, their neighbor for almost twenty years. So careful, I say, that They built and very extensive tunnels with entrances, for example, 100 meters from their observation posts and they did not complain. They wouldn’t notice the movement, the bangs and all the dusty debris.
The one who denounced the situation with determination and pedagogy was Roni KaplanIsraeli captain and spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces to the international press. Hezbollah, he says, has not only intimidated UNIFIL members for years, but, as it also does with civilians in the Shiite villages in southern Lebanon, they use them as human shields. According to him, it is important that his troops withdraw from this part of the territory so that there are no more injuries.
Because neither they nor the Lebanese army will put an end to Hezbollah. They have not even shown their ability to prevent compliance with the ceasefire resolutions, nor the launching of these rockets. Neither the dismantling of the tunnels, nor the weapons depots that Israel finds in its advance.
“I previously served as the Israel Defense Forces liaison chief with @UNIFIL_ peacekeepers on the border with Lebanon,” Kaplan explains. Until the second half of 2015. Every month, in Ras al Naqoura (by my hand), I delivered to the force commander the violations of Resolution 1701, recorded by the State of Israel, that Hezbollah had committed during of these years. Sometimes there were more than a thousand violations per month. “It has increased over time.”
A Spaniard who was part of these forces corroborates: “I served in Unifil and I do not change a single point of what Roni Kaplan writes. This is a UN mission that serves absolutely no purpose for what it was created to do. Spain, at the beginning of the mission, complied and the result was that Hezbollah murdered 6 soldiers, then it was no longer fulfilled.
Indeed, Hezbollah is the largest non-state – and terrorist – army in the world. As if that were not enough, he is also accused of having joined an American drug trafficking network. The amount of infrastructure and weapons it has between the Blue Line and the Litani River is enormous. And there is also a huge turmoil with Iranian arms smuggling, which no one is stopping. Why risk our soldiers? “The uselessness of UNIFIL manifests itself by compromising, in the case of Spain, the reputation of our armed forces,” says the journalist. Vicente Gil in this same newspaper.
Israel is tired of living with an Iranian border as its northern limit. And it’s no longer about the Jews of World War II who went, as Kaplan says, “like sheep to the slaughter.” It is now clear that Hezbollah was planning another October 7 and had the infrastructure for it. He even had the name prepared: “The Conquest of Galilee”. UNIFIL troops only hinder (and even, indirectly, serve the interests of terrorists). Israel not only has the right to defend itself, but also to free itself from openly genocidal enemies who seek to destroy its country. And if all goes well, ours.
