UN chief appeals to Israel and Hexbollah to focus their targets narrowly, to spare civilian lives.
Does anyone else see what’s wrong with this picture? Isn’t Hezbollah known for shooting off records heading into Israeli civilian area?
Now the UN is trying to get into the act over at the Israeli – Lebanon border. From this report (H/T: Lucienne.com) at the Middle East Online, Secretary General Annan is trying to get a peace keeping force in there:
UN chief Kofi Annan called Monday for an end to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in order to buy time to put a well-armed "stabilisation force" along the Lebanon-Israel border.
Problem is, they are already there. So what have they done to help "calm the waters" so far?
The United Nations has a monitoring force on the Lebanese-Israeli border known as UNIFIL, which was set up in March 1978 to oversee an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon that finally only took place 22 years later.
It is made up of 2,000 soldiers and 500 civilians mandated to supervise a ceasefire on the border but is largely powerless. Its mandate, renewed every six months by the Security Council, next expires on July 31
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