Update on that Israeli/Lebanon thing
MrBrian
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I don't know if it's been posted in the past couple of weeks, but a quick update on whats going on in/around Lebanon, since it doesnt seem to get much news anymore.
Since the "end of the war" Israeli cluster bombs have killed over 30 people including children and injured over 300. Israel has left almost enough cluster bombs to kill more than half the population of Lebanon.
Israeli fired most of it's cluster bombs in the final days of the war when the U.N. Security Council was negotiating a resolution to end the conflict.
what else? oh yeah, Israeli warplanes have fired shots at/around a German peace keeping ship (twice). israel continues to violate Lebanese air space and most recently ---
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PARIS (Reuters) - French peacekeeping troops in Lebanon recently came within two seconds of firing missiles at Israeli fighter jets that approached as if to attack them, French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
Speaking to the lower house of parliament on Wednesday night, she said it was the latest in a string of incidents in which Israeli warplanes had "adopted a hostile attitude" to French and German forces and added it was "not tolerable."
"A catastrophe was narrowly avoided by our troops," Alliot-Marie said, according to a transcript of her comments. A foreign ministry spokesman said the events occurred on October 31.
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy summoned Israel's ambassador in Paris and told him Israel should ensure such incidents did not happen again, the foreign ministry said.
Israeli F-15s descended rapidly and then rose quickly as if they were dropping bombs or firing at the French ground forces, which are part of U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL, she said.
"In legitimate defense, our soldiers removed the covers from the missile battery and were two seconds away from firing at the planes that were threatening them," she said.
Israeli jets have often flown over Lebanon since a 34-day war with Hezbollah guerrillas ended on August 14.
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Since the "end of the war" Israeli cluster bombs have killed over 30 people including children and injured over 300. Israel has left almost enough cluster bombs to kill more than half the population of Lebanon.
Israeli fired most of it's cluster bombs in the final days of the war when the U.N. Security Council was negotiating a resolution to end the conflict.
what else? oh yeah, Israeli warplanes have fired shots at/around a German peace keeping ship (twice). israel continues to violate Lebanese air space and most recently ---
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PARIS (Reuters) - French peacekeeping troops in Lebanon recently came within two seconds of firing missiles at Israeli fighter jets that approached as if to attack them, French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
Speaking to the lower house of parliament on Wednesday night, she said it was the latest in a string of incidents in which Israeli warplanes had "adopted a hostile attitude" to French and German forces and added it was "not tolerable."
"A catastrophe was narrowly avoided by our troops," Alliot-Marie said, according to a transcript of her comments. A foreign ministry spokesman said the events occurred on October 31.
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy summoned Israel's ambassador in Paris and told him Israel should ensure such incidents did not happen again, the foreign ministry said.
Israeli F-15s descended rapidly and then rose quickly as if they were dropping bombs or firing at the French ground forces, which are part of U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL, she said.
"In legitimate defense, our soldiers removed the covers from the missile battery and were two seconds away from firing at the planes that were threatening them," she said.
Israeli jets have often flown over Lebanon since a 34-day war with Hezbollah guerrillas ended on August 14.
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France is always 2 seconds away from doing anything...they just never actually do it.
That area is messed up. I am not quite sure what to think.
that was in gaza ... yet another incident where the rest of the world turns a blind eye and no one will face any recourse ...
well bro, an update for that....
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2444717,00.html
Her tiny skull cracked asunder from forehead to crown, one-year-old Maysa Athamna lay next to her sister, Maram, in the mortuary, along with their dead cousin, Sanaa.
They were among 18 Palestinians, including at least 14 women and children, killed yesterday by a dawn Israeli artillery barrage that hit their home in Gaza as they slept.
The carnage in Beit Hanoun, drew worldwide condemnation and looked set to pitch the Middle East conflict into another dismal cycle of reprisal attacks.
Amid pools of blood and gore-spattered walls, survivors told how they fled the first shell straight into the path of the others.
Israel suspended artillery fire and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed regret for the civilian deaths.
But Hamas announced that it would resume attacks inside Israel, and Khaled Mashaal, its supreme leader in Damascus, called on other militant groups to follow suit. “Our response will be by deeds, not words,” he said. “The armed struggle is free to resume, and the resistance will be dictated by local circumstances.”