UN peacekeepers injured by Israel

@PollyPaintsFlowers have a read at what the lovely IDF are doing.

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-accused-of-extermination-in-gaza-by-un-inquiry-13231586

"This is exaggerating and not helpful at all. There were not 35 out of 36 aid trucks taken by Hamas.

The hostages have nearly starved too incidentally with lack of food."

How do you know? Do you have insider knowledge that's more accurate than the Palestinians filming it?

Any lack of food is down to the thefts by Hamas, Palestinians have been posting videos themselves

Regardless of aid, I don't think the hostages welfare is high on the list of priorities for Hamas considering six were murdered when they were close to being rescued

There's literally videos online posted by Palestinians showing Hamas seizing 35 out of 36 aid trucks
This is exaggerating and not helpful at all. There were not 35 out of 36 aid trucks taken by Hamas.

The hostages have nearly starved too incidentally with lack of food.

@grimupnorthnot Please do not use ‘Zionists’ this way ( meaning extreme ultra nationalist supremacist) as it is confusing, and misleading. It has become a misinformed, fudged or conflated term at best, and at worst a way of accusing all Jews falsely.

Just say ‘extremists’ or give some names of those involved. Haaretz suggests that extremists should be called Kahanist rather than ‘Zionist’ (after Kahan a US Jewish terrorist).

There are perfectly ordinary Israelis who are Zionists because they think of Israel as their homeland - following Britain giving it to them in 1948 after WW11 and the Holocaust when Jews had no where to go not even the US or U.K. who at that time actually rejected them. These Zionists are ordinary, reasonable people who support the rights of Palestinians and believe they should have their own state too.

This was something I learned on this board from other posters, so am passing it on.

Yes I know but what is served by killing more innocent civilians?

"Does "its job" include shooting at peacekeepers and their bases? What about all the other minor issues like murder, occupation, killing children, seizing land, targeting healthcare professionals and journalists, torturing people, withholding aid and funds, etc, etc?"

There's literally videos online posted by Palestinians showing Hamas seizing 35 out of 36 aid trucks, another showing civilians breaking into a building owned by Hamas and finding towers of aid being stockpiled

"And watch them kill tens of thousands of other innocent people in the process? No"

The October 7th massacre victims and the hostages are also innocent as will any future victims if Hamas are allowed to carry out their threats of future massacres.

Does "its job" include shooting at peacekeepers and their bases? What about all the other minor issues like murder, occupation, killing children, seizing land, targeting healthcare professionals and journalists, torturing people, withholding aid and funds, etc, etc?

Let Israel do its job and protect its people

And watch them kill tens of thousands of other innocent people in the process? No

Recklessly firing at innocent UN peacekeepers is not protecting its people, or do you think it is? Protect your people yes, act like a bunch of terrorists, no

"Hams [sic] is not a 'democratic civilised country' they're a bunch of terrorists, nobody expects them to uphold anything, Israel is now heading in the same direction"

Exactly. They broke the ceasefire on October 7th, another one will just allow them to regroup and rearm themselves. They've already sworn more October 7ths. Let Israel do its job and protect its people

the zionists in Israel are the problem....

Isreal is the problem here if they stuck to any of the treaties since 1948 they would be peace but they won't be happy till they've wiped Palestine of the face of the earth - time for Israel to be accountable

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Perhaps new hobbies should be offered to the people and organisations currently attacking peacekeepers in Lebanon. If they could find something more constructive to do with their time, then it would solve a lot of problems.

Is there anything that the IDF could do that would be unacceptable or deserving of a degree of criticism, in your opinion?

I expected most people would consider deliberately attacking UN peacekeepers to be a bit of an issue, but it seems like there's a not insignificant number of people on here trying to find a way to excuse it.

And, again, it is not the role of peacekeepers to fight or subdue Hezbollah. And, again, even if it were, that's not grounds to shoot at people.

and why does it bother you so much when people point out that UNRWA employed terrorists?!?!
UNWRA employed people that were subsequently identified to be terrorists than dismissed them. You make it sound like they knowingly employed terrorists. UNWRA is a massive organisation. No employer is immune from unintentionally employing the wrong sort of people. Israel also gets a list of every UNWRA employee so they missed it too.

@Sunnyzebra why does it bother you so much when people point out Israeli war crimes? Where is your condemnation that Israel have deliberately shot at peacekeepers? Does it not bother you that they are acting like a rogue military?

Yet another Israel-bashing thread. You people need new hobbies.
Yeah because this is a hobby, how patronising, talk about minimising. What do you want people to do? Look the other way?

The UN really does seem to be a massive part of the problem in ME.
According to who?

There’s so much evidence now that UNRWA was employing Hamas terrorists.
Is there?

But it illustrates a pattern of the UN being part of the problem.

and why does it bother you so much when people point out that UNRWA employed terrorists?!?!

Up to you if you want the Isreali government to be equated with terrorists. I'd have thought the comparison would not go down well with Israelis

Yet another Israel-bashing thread. You people need new hobbies.

Personally, I don’t know what UNFIL are doing, for a ‘peacekeeping’ force, allowing a terrorist organisation to take over seems like a huge failure.

The UN really does seem to be a massive part of the problem in ME. There’s so much evidence now that UNRWA was employing Hamas terrorists.

Hams is not a 'democratic civilised country' they're a bunch of terrorists, nobody expects them to uphold anything, Israel is now heading in the same direction