Middle East live: UN says its peacekeepers refused Israeli request to leave positions in Lebanon
Middle East live: UN says its peacekeepers refused Israeli request to leave positions in Lebanon
Spokesperson for UN Interim Force in Lebanon says ‘there was a unanimous decision to stay’
A spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon on Saturday said that Israel had requested it leave its positions in south Lebanon where Israel is clashing with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, but they had refused.
They asked us to withdraw “from the positions along the blue line … or up to five kilometers (three miles) from the blue line,” UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Agence France-Presse (AFP), using the term for the demarcation line between both countries. “But there was a unanimous decision to stay,” he said.
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Can/will the peacekeepers actually shoot back? I can't imagine the orders that they were deployed under accounted for an Israeli ground invasion
The worst scenario, in self-defense, when life is threatened.
The US satellites won't go against Israel.
There are three basic principles that continue to set UN peacekeeping operations apart as a tool for maintaining international peace and security.
These three principles are inter-related and mutually reinforcing:
-Consent of the parties -Impartiality -Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandateSeems like they have activated condition 3.