{"id":78136,"date":"2024-10-11T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78136"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:59:24","slug":"bombing-the-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/10\/11\/bombing-the-peacekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing the peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/10\/world-reacts-to-alleged-israeli-attack-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> has reported this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israeli forces fired at UNIFIL headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring two Indonesian peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>UNIFIL \u2013 the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon \u2013 said on Thursday that two peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank\u00a0fired\u00a0at a watchtower at the force\u2019s headquarters in the border area town of Naqoura, causing them to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Any attack on peacekeepers is a \u201cgrave violation of international humanitarian law\u201d, UNIFIL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The peacekeeping organisation, which consists of about 10,000 peacekeepers from 50 countries and was established in 1978, said Israeli forces had \u201cdeliberately\u201d fired at its positions along the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I trust they will forgive me for sharing so much of the report: I thought it important to do so.<\/p>\n<p>As we already know, Israel had already told the UN to take its peacekeeping forces out of this area. The Irish government, which understands more than most what genocide by a foreign power means for a country, was robust in its response and said that its 300 strong contributions to this force were staying in place.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Israel has delivered its response. It is bombing the peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>As Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's very experienced Middle East correspondent, has just said on Radio 4, this cannot be by chance: everyone knows where these peacekeepers are based. Israel most certainly does. This must be a deliberate act in that case.<\/p>\n<p>The war crimes continue in that case, as do the aggression and the illegal acts of warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Let's not pretend Israel is acting in self-defence or even has a defence for its actions now. Nothing about 7 October last year can justify this. Israel is now undertaking overt acts of military aggression against its neighbours. Anyone apologising for that is defending its war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Al Jazeera has reported this morning: Israeli forces fired at UNIFIL headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring two Indonesian peacekeepers. UNIFIL \u2013 the United Nations<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/10\/11\/bombing-the-peacekeepers\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78137,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136\/revisions\/78137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}