Middle East: African Union joins UN member states in expressing support for Guterres – as it happened
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A spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon on Saturday said that Israel had requested it leave its positions in south Lebanon where Israel is clashing with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, but they had refused.

They asked us to withdraw “from the positions along the blue line … or up to five kilometers (three miles) from the blue line,” UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Agence France-Presse (AFP), using the term for the demarcation line between both countries. “But there was a unanimous decision to stay,” he said.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    25·
    1 month ago

    Can/will the peacekeepers actually shoot back? I can’t imagine the orders that they were deployed under accounted for an Israeli ground invasion

    • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
      231·
      1 month ago

      The worst scenario, in self-defense, when life is threatened.

      The US satellites won’t go against Israel.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        23·
        1 month ago

        There are three basic principles that continue to set UN peacekeeping operations apart as a tool for maintaining international peace and security.

        These three principles are inter-related and mutually reinforcing:

        -Consent of the parties
-Impartiality
-Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate

        https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/principles-of-peacekeeping

        • LinktankEnglish
          16·
          1 month ago

          Seems like they have activated condition 3.