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More disgusting cases of child abuse by United Nations peacekeepers and NGOs: Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’. Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity. Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones ...
UN observers in Lebanon, who have no authority to actually do anything about the Hizballah terrorists using their positions as shields (even if they wanted to), will be sitting ducks for another month. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) Having examined the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers
Whoever’s responsible for posting the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon press releases must have had the weekend off, because suddenly three new ones showed up there this morning, for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. And on all three days, UNIFIL reports that Hizballah terrorists used UN posts as cover for ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers
In an amazing coincidence, just as we hear about the proposal for French forces to guard Israel’s northern border, we also learn that France is pushing the UN to impose an immediate ceasefire: AP: U.N. council weighs Mideast cease-fire. NEW YORK - A draft resolution circulating Saturday among U.N. Security ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers, France
From today’s United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon press release, more reports of Hizballah using UN positions as cover: There were two direct impacts on UNIFIL positions from the Israeli side in the past 24 hours. Eight artillery and mortar rounds impacted inside an Indian battalion position in the area ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers
Kofi Annan has finally given the order to evacuate UN observer posts (aka Hizballah firing positions) along the Israeli-Lebanon border: UN removes unarmed observers from northern border. The United Nations has decided to remove 50 unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers
As we reported earlier, Hizballah has attacked United Nations observers twice this week, although you’d never know it from the mainstream media. On Monday, when a UN observer was hit by Hizballah fire, IDF soldiers rushed him to an Israeli hospital for an operation, possibly saving his life. Haaretz has ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers
Anti-Israel European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana wants to send a United Nations peacekeeping force into Lebanon: EU solution: Int’l peacekeeping force. A senior EU official said Monday sending an international peacekeeping force to Lebanon would be a difficult, but crucial part of an overall solution to end the ...
United Nations, Hizballah, UNIFIL, Lebanon, Israel, Peacekeepers