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Germany calls UN base infiltration by Israel ‘completely unacceptable’
Germany is the latest Western nation to denounce Israeli army attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon and has asked Tel Aviv for “an urgent explanation”.
“All parties to the conflict, including the Israeli army, are obliged to direct their combat activities exclusively at the military targets of the other party to the conflict,” Germany’s Federal Foreign Office said.
Five peacekeepers have been wounded in attacks that struck their positions since Israel began a ground campaign against Hezbollah. “Firing on UN peacekeeping troops and forcing entry to their bases is completely unacceptable,” said the Foreign Office.
More than 10,000 troops from over 50 countries, including Germany, have been deployed to the UNIFIL mission.
Members of the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) look at the Lebanese-Israeli border, as they stand on the roof of a watch tower in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon
‘Powerlessness’: Erdogan blasts UN inaction after Israeli attacks on peacekeepers
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at the United Nations for failing to sanction Israel over its wars after UN chief Antonio Guterres said Israeli soldiers had “deliberately breached” a UNIFIL compound.
“The image of the UN, which cannot protect its own personnel, is shameful and worrying,” Erdogan said in a televised address. “Frankly, we ask ourselves what the Security Council is waiting for to stop Israel.
“Can you believe it? The Israeli tanks penetrate into the UNIFIL zone, attack peacekeeping soldiers, even wounding some of them, but the UN Security Council decides to just watch all this criminality from its stands. That’s what we call powerlessness.”
As of September 2, Turkey had 92 peacekeepers stationed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Hezbollah fires ‘big rocket salvo’ at northern Israel
Hezbollah said it launched a barrage of rockets at the north Israeli town of Safed. It said in a statement that its fighters fired a “big rocket salvo” at Safed, adding it was “in defence of Lebanon” and in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese “cities, villages and civilians”.
Earlier the Israeli army said it intercepted three rockets launched from Lebanese territory.
Italian peacekeepers find incendiary devices on road to south Lebanon base
Italy says a patrol of its UNIFIL contingent has found incendiary devices along a road leading to one of their bases, UNP 1-32A, in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the Italian Defence Ministry said a team of bomb disposal experts secured the area but were not able to complete the clearance operations because, for reasons still being ascertained, one of the devices ignited.
This led to a fire in the surrounding area but there was no reported damage nor casualties, it added.
More than 100 rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel today
Israeli media outlet Haaretz, citing the Israeli military, is reporting that 115 rockets have been fired from Lebanon into Israel today.
‘Netanyahu is no longer interested in the 1701 UN Security Council Resolution’
Military analyst Elijah Magnier says the comments by the UNIFIL spokesperson, who stated that the role of the peacekeeping force is more important than ever, are significant.
UNIFIL represents 50 nations and 15 UN Security Council members.
However, Magnier said the US “does not disagree with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon” but is asking UNIFIL to remain despite Netanyahu being “no longer interested in the 1701 United Nations Security Council Resolution”.
He said the strike on the Christian village of Aitou, where internally displaced people had been sheltering, killing 21 people was a similar tactic used in Gaza.
A Lebanese army soldier inspects a site damaged by an Israeli air strike in the Christian-majority region of Aitou in north Lebanon, October 14
