Israeli bombs kill UN peacekeepers

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Dagobah Resident
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060725/ts_nm/mideast_dc_539

There is no limit to the depth of depravity. If this were being done by any other country on the planet the outcry could be heard in space.

Reuters said:
By Adam Entous 22 minutes ago

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli air raid in south Lebanon killed four U.N. military observers on Tuesday in an attack which United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan described as "apparently deliberate."

The deaths came on the eve of an international conference in Rome where Arab and some European nations are expected to call for an immediate end to the 14-day-old war over U.S. objections.

Earlier on Tuesday Israel vowed to pursue its war against Hizbollah and establish a no-go zone for the guerrillas in southern Lebanon until an international force arrives.

After meeting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said both agreed that disarming Hizbollah and deploying a foreign force in its place were key to resolving the two-week-old crisis.

A total of 418 people in Lebanon and 42 Israelis have been killed in a conflict that erupted after Hizbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers in a July 12 cross-border raid.

U.N. officials said four military observers were killed when an Israeli bomb hit their base in southern Lebanon.

Annan asked Israel to conduct an investigation into the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the post.

Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in Lebanon, said: "There were 14 other incidents of firing close to this position in the afternoon from the Israeli side and the firing continued during the rescue operation," he said.

HIZBOLLAH COMMANDER KILLED

On the battlefield inside southern Lebanon, Israeli troops and tanks fought Hizbollah in the guerrilla stronghold town of Bint Jbeil. Israel said it killed up to 30 fighters.

Israel said its troops shot dead senior Hizbollah commander Abu Jaafar near the Lebanese border village of Maroun al-Ras. The army said he commanded Hizbollah's "central sector" on the Lebanese border.

A Hizbollah source said he was a local cultural attach� and was killed in an air strike on the southern village of Qalayleh.

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Israel would control a "security strip" along the 80 km (50 mile) frontier and fire at anyone who entered. He did not say how wide it would be. Israeli government sources estimated its width at 3-4 km (1.9-2.5 miles).

Israel currently has full control over only one Lebanese border village after a week of fierce ground fighting.

"We will have to build a ... security strip that will be a cover for our forces until international forces arrive," Peretz told reporters.

While it was not immediately clear whether Israel planned to control the area by putting more troops into Lebanon, such talk will revive memories of Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon for 22 years until it withdrew in 2000.

Israeli warplanes bombarded south Beirut and launched 100 strikes across south Lebanon. One attack killed a family of seven, Lebanese security sources said.

Hizbollah rockets killed a 15-year-old girl in an Arab Israeli town in the Galilee, medics said.

IRAN WARNING

President Bush said Rice's message was: "We care about the (Lebanese) people. We will help to get aid to the people. And that we want a sustainable ceasefire. We don't want something that's, you know, short term in duration."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the conflict could sweep through the Middle East like a hurricane and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said it could ignite a wider war.

But Rice, who visited bomb-battered Beirut on Monday, said it was time for a "new Middle East."

Amid mounting international concern at civilian casualties and the plight of people displaced in Lebanon, Olmert said Israel would allow aid airlifts to reach the country.

Israel has imposed an air and sea blockade and bombed Beirut airport runways.

Lebanon says Israel's bombardment has displaced a fifth of its population. Most of its dead are civilians.

United Nations humanitarian agencies said they were still largely blocked from bringing relief supplies into Lebanon and from getting injured and very sick people to hospitals.

Ground raids and air strikes have failed to stop Hizbollah firing around 1,200 rockets into northern Israeli towns and cities, where they have killed 18 civilians so far.

One of the key sticking points for a ceasefire in Lebanon is the sequence of events for a deal.

Many Lebanese politicians want a ceasefire first. Israel wants Hizbollah to leave the border area immediately and free the captured soldiers without conditions.

Israel's Lebanon offensive has coincided with its push into the Gaza Strip to try to recover a soldier captured on June 25 by Palestinian militants and halt rocket fire. Israeli forces have killed at least 121 Palestinians in the month since then.
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I think they will go as the same path as they (military people) did/do in Irak..."UPS! It was an hospital"..."UPS! friendly fire" ... "They were shooting us" ... "We thought it was a terrorist site"

But Bush is right in one thing:

"We care about the (Lebanese) people. We will help to get aid to the people. And that we want a sustainable ceasefire. We don't want something that's, you know, short term in duration."
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they just want a Never Ending War...
 
Here's another with a statement from Annan.

Annan: Strike 'Apparently Deliberate'

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/25/world/main1832266.shtml
 
I'm posting an exert from the BBC website on this topic as it shows beyond any doubt that the IDF had deliberately bombed the UN outpost for hours before the large precision guided bomb was dropped. In fact the UN is claiming that at least 10 times the UN forces had called on the IDF to stop the bombardment of the UN outpost, and for their efforts were then killed with an even lmore precise bomb. I think the IDF were trying to silence the UN observers and their protestations at the ongoing conflict, and also cut off any help.aid being administered to the Lebanese people by the UN teams working form this outpost.

This is really sick, as the pathocrats in Israel are claiming they had no idea the outpost was being bombarded (despite the repeated calls to them to halt this operation) and will carry out their own (Biased)investigation. Any guesses what the investigations findings will be...I'm guessing a not guilty verdict for the IDF, or claiming a small miscalculation, despite the fact that this now appears to have been a full scale and co-ordinated military attack operation.

The article is here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215692.stm

According to an initial UN investigation into the incident the observers were subjected to a six-hour bomb attack by Israeli forces during which they called Israel's military 10 times to tell them to stop.

The observers had taken shelter in a bunker under their base because there had already been 14 Israeli artillery attacks on their position.

The BBC's Paul Adams says that they called the Israeli military 10 times over a period of six hours to tell them to stop shelling before they were killed with a precision guided missile.
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I mean, to me its obvious they hit the UN b/c they figured they could get away with it and peacekeepers there would just get in their way.
 
Flashback! Remember the big US "Oops" with the Chinese Embassy?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051229&articleId=1665

US Air Strike on China's Embassy in Belgrade in 1999 was Deliberate
The attack planned as a "decapitation" attack, intended to kill Milosevic

December 29, 2005
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy November-December 2005

Highly-placed NATO sources have confirmed the reason behind the US air strike - with three Tomahawk cruise missiles - against the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Belgrade, (then) Yugoslavia, on May 7, 1999. The then-Clinton Government of the United States said at the time that the strike was accidental, due to faulty maps and intelligence, but this has been disproven by the NATO sources.

The NATO sources told Defense & Foreign Affairs that the attack was based on intelligence that then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was to have been in the Embassy at the time of the attack. The attack, then, was deliberately planned as a "decapitation" attack, intended to kill Milosevic.

The London Observer, on October 19, 1999, had said that the attack had been deliberate, noting: "... Politiken newspaper in Denmark and Ed Vulliamy cites senior military and intelligence sources in Europe and the US stating that the embassy was bombed after its NATO electronic intelligence (ELINT) discovered it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.

"Supportive evidence is provided by three other NATO officers - a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels.

"All three say they knew in April that the Chinese embassy was acting as a "rebro" (rebroadcast) station for the Yugoslav army. The embassy was also suspected of monitoring NATO's cruise missile attacks on Belgrade, with a view to developing effective countermeasures."

The Clinton Administration blamed the attack on inaccurate intelligence information provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), alleging that the three missiles, which landed in one corner of the PRC embassy block, had been meant to target the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP). US Defence secretary William Cohen said at the time: "One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map." Sources within the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency reacted with anger at the allegation that their mapping had been at fault.

Moreover, it was clear that Clinton appointee George Tenet, the CIA Director at the time, was involved in the deception operation built around the failed assassination attack.

There was widespread disbelief of the US Clinton Administration claim that the attack was "accidental", but no accurate background information as to why the attack against the Embassy was scheduled. The rationale cited by The Observer was not the true cause of the targeting.

In July 1999, then-CIA Director Tenet testified in Congress that out of the 900 targets struck by NATO during the three-month bombing campaign, only one was developed by the CIA: the PRC Embassy.
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And from The Guardian:

Nato bombed Chinese deliberately

Nato hit embassy on purpose
Kosovo: special report

John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe in Copenhagen and Ed Vulliamy in Washington
Sunday October 17, 1999
The Observer

Nato deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the war in Kosovo after discovering it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.

According to senior military and intelligence sources in Europe and the US the Chinese embassy was removed from a prohibited targets list after Nato electronic intelligence (Elint) detected it sending army signals to Milosevic's forces.

The story is confirmed in detail by three other Nato officers - a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels. They all confirm that they knew in April that the Chinese embassy was acting as a 'rebro' [rebroadcast] station for the Yugoslav army (VJ) after alliance jets had successfully silenced Milosevic's own transmitters.

The Chinese were also suspected of monitoring the cruise missile attacks on Belgrade, with a view to developing effective counter-measures against US missiles.

The intelligence officer, who was based in Macedonia during the bombing, said: 'Nato had been hunting the radio transmitters in Belgrade. When the President's [Milosevic's] residence was bombed on 23 April, the signals disappeared for 24 hours. When they came on the air again, we discovered they came from the embassy compound.' The success of previous strikes had forced the VJ to use Milosevic's residence as a rebroadcast station. After that was knocked out, it was moved to the Chinese embassy. The air controller said: 'The Chinese embassy had an electronic profile, which Nato located and pinpointed.'

The Observer investigation, carried out jointly with Politiken newspaper in Denmark, will cause embarrassment for Nato and for the British government. On Tuesday, the Queen and the Prime Minister will host a state visit by the President of China, Jiang Zemin. He is to stay at Buckingham Palace.

Jiang Zemin is still said to be outraged at the 7 May attack, which came close to splitting the alliance.The official Nato line, as expressed by President Bill Clinton and CIA director George Tenet, was that the attack on the Chinese Embassy was a mistake. Defence Secretary William Cohen said: 'One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map.'

Later, a source in the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency said that the 'wrong map' story was 'a damned lie'.

Tenet apologised last July, saying: 'The President of the United States has expressed our sincere regret at the loss of life in this tragic incident and has offered our condolences to the Chinese people and especially to the families of those who lost their lives in this mistaken attack.

Nato's apology was predicated on the excuse that the three missiles which landed in one corner of the embassy block were meant to be targeted at the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement, the FDSP. But inquiries have revealed there never was a VJ directorate of supply and procurement at the site named by Tenet. The VJ office for supplies - which Tenet calls FDSP - is some 500 metres down the street from the address he gave. It was bombed later.

Moreover the CIA and other Nato intelligence agencies, such as Britain's MI6 and the code-breakers at GCHQ, would have listened in to communication traffic from the Chinese embassy as a matter of course since it moved to the site in 1996.

A Nato flight control officer in Naples also confirmed to us that a map of 'non-targets': churches, hospitals and embassies, including the Chinese, did exist. On this 'don't hit' map, the Chinese embassy was correctly located at its current site, and not where it had been until 1996 - as claimed by the US and NATO.

Why the Chinese were prepared to help Milosevic is a more murky question. One possible explanation is that the Chinese lack Stealth technology, and the Yugoslavs, having shot down a Stealth fighter in the early days of the air campaign, were in a good position to trade. The Chinese may have calculated that Nato would not dare strike its embassy, but the five-storey building was emptied every night of personnel. Only three people died in the attack, two of whom were, reportedly, not journalists - the official Chinese version - but intelligence officers.

The Chinese military attache, Ven Bo Koy, who was seriously wounded in the attack and is now in hospital in China, told Dusan Janjic, the respected president of Forum for Ethnic Relations in Belgrade, only hours before the attack, that the embassy was monitoring incoming cruise missiles in order to develop counter-measures.

Nato spokesman Lee McClenny yesterday stood by the official version. 'It was a terrible mistake,' he said, 'and we have apologised.' A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in London said yesterday: 'We do not believe that the embassy was bombed because of a mistake with an out-of-date map.'
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Yeah, that's it, the IDF had the wrong map. I wonder what can be found out about that specific location and/or the people working there. I suspect that there was something about that outpost that the IDF wanted to eliminate, so they did. They will "investigate" and discover "Oops, we had outdated maps". After all, why not reuse a good story line?
 
On the grapevine I heard the Chinese had been attempting to get involved however, it was the positioning of a 'military vehicle' in relation to the embassy that ensured the 'bombing'. A similar event occured during the intial Iraq invasion relating to the Chinese embassy in Baghdad. Apparently the communique to the Chinese was along the lines of 'we've both been here before, you know what'll happen...'
 
Maybe the flashback to China is not an accident...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14034540/from/RS.4/

Israel expresses 'deep regret' after U.N. strike
Ireland says officer in region warned Israeli forces six times about danger

Updated: 8:17 a.m. MT July 26, 2006

KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday expressed "deep regret" after an Israeli bomb destroyed a U.N. observer post on the border in southern Lebanon, killing four observers.

"The prime minister said he has instructed the military to carry out a thorough investigation and that the results will be shared with the U.N. secretary general," Olmert said in a statement released by his office.

Olmert told U.N. chief Kofi Annan in a phone call that the post was hit inadvertently. He also expressed dismay over Annan's initial comments that the airstrike was "apparently deliberate."

"It's inconceivable for the U.N. to define an error as an apparently deliberate action," Olmert said.
Uh, excuse me, Ehud, but just exactly why would it be inconceivable?
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Warnings from Irish officer
At the same time, Ireland's Foreign Ministry said an Irish army officer in south Lebanon had warned the Israeli military six times that their attacks in the area were putting the lives of U.N. observers at risk.

"On six separate occasions he was in contact with the Israelis to warn them that their bombardment was endangering the lives of U.N. staff in South Lebanon," a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said.

"He warned: 'You have to address this problem or lives may be lost,'" the spokesman said of comments by a senior Irish soldier working as a liaison officer between U.N. forces in South Lebanon and the Israelis.

The bomb made a direct hit on the building and shelter of the observer post in the town of Khiam near the eastern end of the border with Israel, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as UNIFIL.


China condemns attack
One of the dead was identified as Chinese U.N. observer Du Zhaoyu, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Israel's ambassador to Beijing was summoned Wednesday morning and asked to convey China's request that Israel fully investigate the incident and issue an apology to the victim's relatives.

"We are deeply shocked by this incident and strongly condemn it," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in the statement.

The other three observers were from Austria, Canada and Finland but it wasn't clear which two were confirmed killed, U.N. and Lebanese military officials said.

Like Olmert, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman expressed his "deep regret" for the deaths and denied the post was intentionally targeted.

Building destroyed
As reports of the attack emerged Tuesday, Annan rushed out of a hotel in Rome following a dinner with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.

"I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a U.N. Observer post in southern Lebanon," Annan said in the statement.

Annan said in his statement that the post had been there for a long time and was marked clearly, and was hit despite assurances from Olmert that U.N. positions would not be attacked.

"I call on the government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand that any further attack on U.N. positions and personnel must stop," Annan said in the statement.

Gillerman called the assertions "premature and erroneous."

"I am shocked and deeply distressed by the hasty statement of the secretary-general, insinuating that Israel has deliberately targeted the U.N. post," he said.

He said Israel would investigate the bombing. "We do not have yet information what caused this death: it could be the IDF (Israel's military) it could be Hezbollah," he said.

In the meantime, the envoy assured that "Israel remains committed to protecting the safety and security of U.N. personnel on the ground and is doing its utmost to guarantee that they be able to carry out their mission."

U.N. peacekeepers in the line of fire
Since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants began two weeks ago, there have been several dozen incidents of firing close to U.N. peacekeepers and observers, including direct hits on nine positions, some of them repeatedly, a U.N. official said.

As a result of these attacks, 12 U.N. personnel have been killed or injured, U.N. officials said.

Tuesday's bomb hit the building and shelter of the observer post in Khiam near the eastern end of the border with Israel, said Milos Struger, spokesman for UNIFIL.

During an Israeli offensive against Lebanon in 1996, artillery blasted a U.N. base at Qana in southern Lebanon, killing more than 100 civilians taking refuge with the peacekeepers.

The U.N. mission, which has nearly 2,000 military personnel and more than 300 civilians, is to patrol the border line, known as the Blue Line, drawn by the United Nations after Israel withdrew troops from south Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation.
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Well, Ehud, it seems quite conceivable to me. China is "known" to do business (i.e. for military hardware) with Iran. Iran is "known" to support and supply Hezbollah. One of the observers is Chinese connected to Iran via missiles. Observing the progress and relative success of the various kinds of hardware...

Uh, like DUH.
 
OK, it seems highly likely that these observers were clearly military and not civilian. The following article seems to be making the case that these observers were killed because the UN did not have the presence of mind to get them out of a war zone. While technically this is true, isn't this what a peacekeeping force is supposed to do? BE in a war zone to help keep tempers down????

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1409399.html

Kofi Annan Could Have Ordered Peacekeepers to Leave
Julie Stahl
Jerusalem Bureau Chief

Haifa, Israel (CNSNews.com) - The four United Nations peacekeepers killed in an Israeli attack on their outpost were required to stay at that post "until they were ordered by the [U.N.] secretary general to withdraw," said a member of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization on Wednesday.

But the peacekeepers apparently never received such an order, despite the fierce cross-border fighting that erupted in southern Lebanon two weeks ago.

The four peacekeepers -- from China, Austria, Canada and Finland -- had taken security precautions and were in a shelter under their bunker when they were killed, said Wicki Dieter, the chief plans officer for the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO).


(UNTSO is an unarmed U.N. body whose "observer" mandate dates from 1948. By contrast, UNIFIL -- the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon -- was created in 1978 to "restore the international peace and security" in southern Lebanon.)

According to Dieter, it's still not clear exactly what happened at the UNIFIL outpost, which, according to the BBC, had been shelled by Israeli forces at least 14 times before Tuesday's deadly attack.

On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was "shocked and deeply distressed" at the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the outpost.

\lang4105 "This co-ordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long-established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire," Annan was quoted as saying.

Anan -- and China -- were among the first to condemn what Israel has called an unintended attack. They are demanding an investigation.

Neither Annan nor Israel has said anything about why the unarmed peacekeepers -- who were supposed to be monitoring a ceasefire -- were left in what's become a war zone. Israeli officials flatly refused comment about that on Wednesday.

'Deep regret'

On Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, Israel expressed "deep regret" for bombing the U.N. bunker.

"Israel does not target UN staff, and since the beginning of the conflict, Israel has deployed all its efforts to ensure the safety of those staff in the region," said a statement released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Miri Eisen, an Israeli government spokesman, said on Wednesday that Ehud Olmert "spoke to Kofi Annan this morning and told him that there would be an in-depth inquiry into how this happened."

Israel does not target the U.N. or civilians, Israeli government spokesman Eisen told Fox Friends on Wednesday. "It was a very sad and regretful mistake, and we will do our utmost to inquire into how this happened," she said.

Further complicating the situation is the rocky relationship between Israel and the United Nations.

Israel has long complained about the failure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, accusing some peacekeepers of siding with Israel's enemies.

In Oct. 2000, three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by Hizballah in a cross-border ambush that happened under the noses of United Nations peacekeepers.

And many Israelis harbor a deep distrust of the U.N. in general, given years of anti-Israeli resolutions, including the controversial 1975 "Zionism equals racism" resolution (see related story).

More rockets

As Israel tries to manage fallout over the U.N. peacekeeper deaths, Katyusha and Kassam rockets continued to fall in northern and southern Israel on Wednesday. And the fierce fighting continued in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli army said it had surrounded the Hizballah "capital" of Bint Jbail on Wednesday, and a number of Israeli soldiers reportedly were wounded in the fighting to take the town.

Bint Jbail is about two miles inside of Lebanon, and Israel's effort to capture it has been going on since the weekend.

A United Nations spokesman was quoted as saying that Israeli troops had entered the town on Tuesday, but Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah denied that was the case.

Nasrallah, in a televised address, said that Hizballah is about to enter a "new phase in the confrontation, the phase of [hitting] beyond Haifa."

Israeli officials have said they believe Nasrallah has missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and even beyond.

Last week, the Israeli Air Force demolished a truck carrying at least 10 Iranian-made, long-range rockets.

By mid-morning warning sirens were already sounding in Haifa, once again forcing residents to take cover. At least 36 Hizballah-fired rockets crashed into Israel by mid-morning, injuring several people.

On Tuesday, 101 rockets were fired at Israel, killing one teenage Arab girl and wounding more than 20 Israelis.

Eighteen Israeli civilians have been killed as a result of rocket attacks and at least 24 soldiers have been killed in battle.

In Lebanon, nearly 400 people have been killed. It is not clear how many of them are Hizballah fighters. Although it appears that the majority of the casualties are civilian, Israel has gone to great lengths to warn civilians to flee areas that it plans to target.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, essentially giving him a green light to continue the Israeli battle to route the Hizballah.

The head of Israeli military intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, said on Tuesday that Hizballah was trying to draw Syria into the war to open a third front for Israel, but neither Syria nor Israel were interested in fighting each other, he said.

Speaking to Israeli lawmakers, Yadlin was quoted as saying that Iran gives more than $100 million a year to Hizballah via Syria.

On the southern front, Palestinians reported seven people killed in Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip overnight.

Israeli forces entered the northern Gaza Strip to "destroy the terrorist infrastructure and stop the rocket launching," an army spokesperson said. The Air Force attacked structures containing weapons and the army also attacked cells of armed gunmen, the spokesperson said.

Three Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel early Wednesday.

Rice met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday at the Mukata compound in Ramallah.

She pledged that the U.S. would "continue our common work of bringing a two-state solution to the people of Palestine and the people of Israel, that we will not tire in our efforts."

Abbas said he was working hard to obtain the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was abducted two weeks ago.

Abbas said the Palestinians want a "ceasefire now" and wanted to "prevent the fire from spreading." He called for a revival of the diplomatic process.
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Next we have even more indication that they were military.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5216230.stm

How UN Lebanon post was bombed
Israeli bombing at Khiam
There was fierce fighting in the Khiam area for six hours
Details of the circumstances in which the Israeli air force bombed a United Nations observation post in south Lebanon, killing four UN peacekeepers have begun to emerge.

According to diplomats familiar with the UN's initial report into the incident, the post in the town of Khiam was hit by precision-guided munition, says the BBC's Paul Adams in Jerusalem.

The report says there was fierce fighting in the area for about six hours before the post was hit, during which time UN personnel contacted the Israel military 10 times, urging them to stop firing.

Our correspondent says the UN claims that after each call, it was assured the firing would stop.

Six warning calls

A preliminary UN report said 17 bombardments landed within one kilometre of the post, and 12 artillery rounds hit within 150 metres of the structure - four of them being direct hits.

After this, the post was hit by a precision-guided weapon from an Israeli aircraft.

The Irish foreign ministry said one of its officers in the UN's Unifil peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, placed six warning calls to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) prior to the attack.

"On six separate occasions he was in contact with the Israelis to warn them that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff in South Lebanon," Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed foreign office spokesman as saying.

"He warned: 'You have to address this problem or lives may be lost'," the spokesman said.

The Associated Press news agency named the officer as Lt Col John Molloy.

The bomb which killed the unarmed peacekeepers - Canadian, Austrian, Finnish and Chinese soldiers - hit the building and shelter of the observation post, near the eastern end of the Lebanese-Israeli border, UN spokesman Milos Struger said.

Israel has launched an investigation.

The UN post was on high ground, in an area once occupied by Israel.
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Ive been sitting up a little late trying to ask myself what the benefits from the Israeli Pathocracy bombing of the UN compound and personnel.

Then I started to notice how many times in the last few days the Israeli Gov and have been saying that they would be fully prepared to hand over the security of the area of southern Lebanon they have been making an obvious land grab for. This didn't seem to make any sense to me for a while, but I've had an idea as to maybe part of the reason why.

I was thinking that by making a statement that they would accept a UN peace force taking control on the surface sounds like a good thing to most of the sheeple...but couple that with the bombing, and there almost seems to be a clear message being sent to the UN, that the pathocracy in Israel will not tolerate a UN presence in their theatre of operations. So the situation is then left that the UN would maybe wish to try and secure a ceasefire in the southern Leabanese belt of land the Israeli's are claiming for their own, yet knowing that their personnel are not safe there, will they be able to get any countries to willingly put their own personnel in harms way?

It has been made quite clear that the UN are considered targets in southern Lebanon, despite assurances of their safety from Olmert to Annan, but with all the member coutries of the UN knowing this also, would they be willing to put their personnel at risk in such a war zone where they already know they will be targets? Maybe and maybe not (depends how serious they are about brokering a cease fire and peace agreement) but the Australians have pulled their personnel out just for a start, could this be the start of a trend?

To get to my point, I think the Israeli pathocracy has tried to scare all outside countries off, from southern Lebanon (the US are reluctant to send troops or personnel there, or so I've heard) in an effort to stem the news and reporting of the ethnic cleansing taking place. Thinking like this I now think it makes sense that they are welcoming an intenational "peace force", simply because they don't belive there will ever be a materialisation of such a force, and thus letting them continue the slaughter of the Lebanese, and land grap as they see fit, without anyone being able to report on the real situation there.

If I might add, that this event may also have been set-up as part of the ongoing process led by the "3D-Consortium" of building interational
hatred for the actions of the Israelis in the minds of the sheeple. Thus futhering the plan to have a large scale retaliation in which Israel (and the Temle Mount, to tie in with religious prophesy) may be destroyed and a new Israel may be created.

Just some thoughts I wanted to share as I've been puzzling over this for a while.
 
Israel, via the zionists have perfected the anti-Godfather. They are skilled and expert at making people deals they cannot accept.
 
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