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Have you looked at the Wikipedia article? According to it, the UN said the Hezbollah position was 150m away from the UNIFIL Khiyam base; the Israelis claim the distance was <40m.

>"According to an interview on CBC radio and multiple print sources, retired Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie, referring to an email he had received a few days previously from the now deceased Canadian peacekeeper Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, stated that "...what he was telling us was Hezbollah fighters were all over his position and the IDF were (sic) targeting them and that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it.""

>"UNIFIL maintained that Hezbollah fighters were not allowed into any of its bases. However, they reported more than 20 instances of rockets being fired from less than 500m from their positions, as well as a number of cases of small arms and mortar fire from within 100m. Additionally, UNIFIL reported several instances of their positions and vehicles being hit by Hezbollah mortars, small arms fire, or rockets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_incidents_during...




So even according to your link, it's either Israel or Hezbollah. In fact, the victims seem to be just as scared by the Hezbollah than by Israel (an ally state). Now, surely you can agree that only one those two is very often condemned in the west, while the other is praised, supported, and granted a free pass for leveling a city to the ground? You're proving my original point, that Israel can act like a criminal state with 0 repercussions.




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