Israel are being routed at every turn as they keep invading Lebanon’s border only to be repelled – and the costs are mounting…
Right, so for as much as Israel seems to not only be getting away with, but succeeding in clearing the north of Gaza of all civilian life, the enactment of the General’s Plan to take out Hamas by literally taking out everyone still there if they haven’t left already every bit the extremist action it very much sounds like, but things are not going according to plan in Lebanon for them.
Southern Lebanon is a different kettle of fish, mountainous and inhospitable to IDF soldiers who have never fought there and learned about doing so from a book, whilst also not only facing Hezbollah, but also the UN itself as the UNIFIL peacekeepers refuse to give ground to them, doing their jobs, standing firm, defending the Israel-Lebanon border region and earning international plaudits for it, from the Irish peacekeepers who wouldn’t move, to those deliberately targeted by the IDF at UNIFIL headquarters, now being revealed to have been targeted with lasers before being shot at by a Merkava tank.
The scale of the losses Israel is experiencing itself as a result of it’s war criminality in Lebanon might be considered karma by many in which case, they’ve never been able to successfully invade Lebanon before and they’re getting very far trying to now either.
Right, so that was the recounting by the two Indonesian UNIFIL peacekeepers who were thrown from their watchtower by tank fire on the 10th October, an attack as this was on UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, Southern Lebanon and some 36 miles west of the position of the Irish UNIFIL peacekeepers who were essentially being used as human shields by the IDF as they fired upon nearby villages several days earlier. It’s reassuring to see these people back on active duty, attacks on such people a direct attack on the UN as this is, these peacekeepers having had their annual remit to defend the border between Israel and Lebanon as they have done since 1978 just renewed unanimously by the UN security council, begging the question of Israeli allies like the US and UK who are permanent security council members of who’s side exactly they are on here.
Such actions against UNIFIL are uncalled for, completely unsupportable regardless of your views perhaps as far as Hezbollah go, certainly as far as the UN go, where Israel have a mandated requirement to not harm UNIFIL peacekeepers, or any UN worker but irrespective of that, whether it be UNIFIL, or Hezbollah or the Lebanese army itself, also involved, Israel are having an absolute mare trying to make any progress in it’s latest attempted invasion of Israel.
Those Merkava tanks which are so feared and have wreaked so much damage in Gaza are not nearly so effective in Lebanon, despite stories such as that of the one which fired upon the UNIFIL HQ in Naqoura.
Source: Youtube
Watch carrefully at 6:20-8:35