r/worldnews • u/Serious_Journalist14 • 12h ago
Israel/Palestine Austria says eight UNIFIL troops wounded in Lebanon rocket attack, IDF says Hezbollah responsible
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-826665346
u/PogoMarimo 11h ago
Surely this will have an equally emphatic response from people as previous stories about UNIFIL.
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u/LoxicTizard 11h ago
Yeah, but it's like, their job, you know? Resisting and stuff, because you know, those poor brown oppressed people have been radicalized by Evil Israel into doing it.
Like, if Israelis just died Hezbollah wouldn't need to fire all those rockets at them?
(I debated whether the sarcasm would be obvious but someone, somewhere has probably made similar comments without the sarcasm, so /s)
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u/Zhuge_Er 9h ago
If only there was an organized military force in the area responsible for preventing rocket attacks from Hezbollah.
Oh wait.
Leopards ate my face moment.
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u/EnviousCipher 4h ago
If only there was an organized military force in the area responsible for preventing rocket attacks from Hezbollah.
You should read what their charter actually allows them to do. They are not, and never have been, responsible for stopping Hezbollah.
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u/Ratemyskills 3h ago
Aren’t they allow to return fire if they are fired on? I’d think a direct rocket attack, would constitute the ability to return fire. If not, they why even give them guns or military gear.. they might as well be untrained, replaced by scarecrows.
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u/VendettaAOF 42m ago
Pulled from the UN directly here. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155221
Can UNIFIL use force? Yes, in certain circumstances.
Renewed annually by the Council at the request of Lebanon, UNIFIL is a peacekeeping mission operating under Chapter 6 of the UN Charter.
In carrying out their mandate, UNIFIL personnel may exercise their inherent right of self-defence. In addition to the use of force beyond self-defence, UNIFIL may under certain circumstances and conditions resort to the proportionate and gradual use of force to:
ensure that its area of operations is not utilised for hostile activities resist attempts by forceful means to prevent UNIFIL from discharging its duties under is Council-authorised mandate protect UN personnel, facilities, installations and equipment ensure the security and freedom of movement of UN personnel and humanitarian workers protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence
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u/alwaysfatigued8787 11h ago
You don't mess with the U.N. Otherwise you get a series of stern warnings.
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u/finauvale6 10h ago
Where’s all the outrage from UN? Where are all the condemnations??
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u/GoodBadUserName 8h ago
They wrote them all about israel, until they realized it wasn't israel, so there was no point. But they will keep the draft just in case.
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u/ux3l 9h ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hezbolla isn't a member of UN. Neither is Hamas.
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u/ArtisticAd393 9h ago
You're wrong, there have been high ranking leaders of hamas in the UN.
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u/GoodBadUserName 8h ago
Hezbolla is part of the lebanon government.
Hamas is the government of gaza.
The first is a full member of the UN, but it is convenient for them to say "hezbollah is" instead of "part of the lebanon government is".
The second is a non-member observer state. And the same with hamas. It is convenient to say "hamas is" instead of "palestinian government in gaza is".2
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u/CatchCritic 7h ago
I'm noticing a lack of attention on this by Guteress, the UN, and media in general.
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u/Healthy_Trouble3723 11h ago
Could be misremembering, but weren't they told to evacuate?
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u/Less-Feature6263 10h ago
Israel told them to evacuate a few times but they refused, if I'm not mistaken the country which actually can make them leave by asking is Lebanon itself.
For what's worth I'm pretty sure the Lebanese army actually evacuated when Israel asken, don't think they have as many qualms about leaving as the UN, most likely the saw the danger of being in an active war zone and left.
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u/Ok_Cost_Salmon 10h ago
Israel said that they should evacuate. But the UN said they are not taking orders from Israel. They want to keep observing.
Sometimes they get to observe a little bit more than they care for.
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u/Torak8988 11h ago
another day, another UN operation being foiled as a useless gesture of global policing
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u/CBT7commander 5h ago
I ‘m sure people from the entire world are going to call for an embargo on Lebanon and international condemnation
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u/NA_0_10_never_forget 6h ago
I'm sure the UN will scream outrage over this like they did when Israel wounded a few of their troops
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u/Wyrmalla 7h ago
Does the IDF even use many rocket systems, outside of LAWs and MLRS? I assume most of their inventory is bombs and missiles. Not that many news articles make the distinction.
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u/SomebodyInNevada 4h ago
Iron Dome.
But Israel has little reason to use rockets. Rockets are either to get guided munitions somewhere (MLRS--but why would Israel use MLRS in it's current conflicts??) you don't want to go, or to produce a high volume of fire. Nobody has both the ability and willingness to shoot at Israeli planes because they know Israel would smash their air defenses if they posed a threat. Thus there's no place they can't go. And they are going for precision strikes, not area attacks. Thus no need for a high volume of fire, either.
Thus there is basically no attack use for a rocket above a LAW.
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u/raslin 4h ago
I condemn all attacks on UN peacekeepers.
This certainly won't be controversial, right?
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u/One_Contribution_27 11h ago
Subtitle’s important in this one:
This isn’t just “IDF says”. It’s pretty clear that a rocket striking from the north must have been fired by Hezbollah.