Not content with bombing refugee camps, hospitals and homes, shooting children and burning people alive in Northern Gaza, or with bombing non-combatant civilians in Lebanon, Israel is also now revealed as having targeted UN peace-keeping forces.
Israel is completely unaccountable because it knows that, whatever it does, it will always have the backing of the US.
This is from the Financial Times on 23 October 2024:
“Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report.
“Confidential document says 15 peacekeepers injured by white phosphorus.
“Israel’s military forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and is suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus close enough to injure 15 peacekeepers, according to a confidential report outlining a dozen recent incidents in which the IDF attacked international troops in Lebanon.
“The report — prepared by a country that contributes troops, and seen by the Financial Times — underscores how Israeli troops have targeted Unifil, the UN-mandated force deployed along the de facto border between the countries, on multiple occasions. They have damaged several facilities and caused injuries to troops stationed at border posts in southern Lebanon.
“Unifil has called these incidents a “flagrant violation of international law”.
“Israel has rejected accusations that it has deliberately targeted Unifil since it launched its ground invasion into southern Lebanon in the early hours of October 1. The Israeli military had not responded to a request for comment by publication time.”
Israel “has demanded the UN evacuate its peacekeepers from southern Lebanon for their own safety. Unifil, and the 50 countries that contribute troops to its ranks, have unanimously refused.”
And the UK and other countries continue to arm Israel and defend its actions, despite its mass murder in Gaza and Lebanon, and despite its flagrant breaches of international law, which all these countries claim to uphold.
It only goes to show that in international law, ‘might is right’, and applies only to the victims of imperialism, never to imperialism itself.