Israel are going to start WWIII

The Israeli journalist Doron Kadosh has reported that Hezbollah bunkers were found a few metres from a UNIFIL post. Kadosh filmed the entrance to the Hezbollah base. The footage can be seen on the following link. Marco C Sermoneta quoted Kadosh's original post and Sermoneta's post was re-posted by Kadosh.

https://x.com/MarcoCSermoneta/status/1845502479871443084

So you are criticising Israel for attacking outposts? Because that is definitely happening and should be criticised.

Well, UNIFIL were supposed to keep peace in Southern Lebanon. In that regard, given that Hezbollah has been operating there with absolute impunity, I'd say they've been about as useful as a chocolate teapot, and that's being kind.

They should have left when it became clear after the 8th of October last year that they weren't actually going to do anything except sit on their hands and twiddle their thumbs. Failing that, they should leave now.

A lot of Irish have immense empathy towards a country being invaded and innocent people being slaughtered at the whim of absolute cnuts giving our own history!

The israeli government and their supporters of the mass killings of innocents are an absolute plague!

Why are posters who are objecting to the post being quoted here all busy giving likes to this one below?

Isn't it saying the same thing, except that it goes further, since it implies that anyone who sees Israel's point of view must be islamophobic?

Yes yes, they should obey the Israeli dictator. Clever thinking. We sure don't want any witnesses to what's happening in Lebanon.

You can't keep lying about things to cover up crimes.

The following is, and has always been, their mandate there

Monitoring cessation of hostilities and helping ensure humanitarian access to civilian population

The reasons the zionists are trying to kill them and push them out is that the latter part of that mandate is a bit inconvenient to those planning and wishing to commit genocide said civilians.

While they did not shoot down the less than 20% of rockets traveling from Lebanon to Israel, neither did they shoot down the greater than 80% of rockets which were fired in the other direction by the belligerents.

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon - Wikipedia

(UNIFIL) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission established on 19 March 1978 by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426, and several further resolutions in 2006 to confirm Hezbollah demilitarisation, support Lebanese army operations against insurgents and weapon smuggling, and confirming Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, in order to ensure that the government of Lebanon would restore its effective authority in the area.

Also:

It is composed of 10,000 peacekeepers from 46 nations, tasked with helping the Lebanese Army keep the south of the country protected from "unauthorized armed personnel, such as Hezbollah".

Hezbollah demilitarisation? Keeping the South of the country protected from "unauthorized armed personnel, such as Hezbollah?"

Clearly they have been a massive success, and their mission should continue 😏 (note: sarcasm)

I don't think UNIFIL have the necessary equipment to shoot down rockets. Besides, as you point out, that's not their mandate.

I think your reading the mandate incorrectly.

There have been a number of posts about the UNIFIL mandate which are inaccurate.

Not anyone but a lot of people I imagine, yes. Only logical explanation at this point. Don't get me wrong, I see Islam as a backward and strange religion but it's just another organised religion in my book. Religions bring nothing but strife. Always have. However the women and children of Gaza had no choice when they were born. Being Palestinian/Muslim doesn't mean they can be wiped out at will by the IDF who see them as subhuman. And they are clearly not the only ones.

Two things can be true at once:

1. Israel should not attack UNIFIL troops and positions.
2. UNIFIL is a complete joke that is at best as useful as a chocolate teapot, and they should leave voluntarily.

As to the UN mandate, I'm assuming there's no reason Ireland could not withdraw its troops unilaterally.

I would agree. Ireland has shown no desire to leave. Hopefully with the international condemnation and words from Biden the attacks on UNIFIL will stop.