Netanyahu Calls On UN To Remove Troops From Southern Lebanon Combat Areas
Netanyahu slams UN chief Guterres for making UN “soldiers hostages of Hezbollah” by refusing to evacuated from harm’s way.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the United Nations to pull out its troops from southern Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its ground offensive against the Hezbollah terrorist group.
In a televised speech on Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu directly addressed the UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres, urging him to remove the multinational forces, also known as the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), from the combat zone along Israel’s northern border.
PM Netanyahu: "I appeal to the UN Secretary General; Your refusal to evacuate UNIFIL soldiers has turned them into hostages of Hezbollah."
Full remarks >>https://t.co/YOUp2Yvw20 pic.twitter.com/tfSGX83bwr
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 13, 2024
Created in 1978, the so-called UN Peacekeepers watched idly as Iran-backed Hezbollah in recent years built its extensive underground terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
After the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on September 23 launched a ground operation to drive Hezbollah away from its border, the UN soldiers were increasingly being used by the terrorist group as human shields against the advancing Israeli troops.
The Israeli prime minister slammed the UN chief Guterres for “making UNIFIL soldiers hostages of Hezbollah” by refusing to evacuate from harm’s way.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
United Nations peacekeepers must be evacuated from southern Lebanon now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a call to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
“From here I want to appeal directly to the UN Secretary-General,” Netanyahu said in a video statement in Hebrew about the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which monitors the Israeli-Lebanese border.
“It is time for you [Guterres] to remove UNIFIL from Hezbollah’s strongholds and from the fighting areas,” Netanyahu stated.
He rephrased in English: “Mr. Secretary General, get the UNIFIL forces out of harm’s way. It should be done right now, immediately.”
He spoke after two incidents in which IDF fire hit UNIFIL bases on the Lebanese side of the north border. (…)
European countries and the United States have called on Israel to ensure that the peacekeepers can safely operate, despite its military operation to push Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon.
The IDF has repeatedly asked for this, and has been met with repeated refusals, Netanyahu said, explaining that keeping the peacekeepers at their base, turns them into human shields for Hezbollah.
“Your refusal to evacuate the UNIFIL soldiers makes them hostages of Hezbollah. This endangers both them and the lives of our soldiers.”
Hezbollah uses UNFIL posts to shield its rocket launches into Israel
Since the IDF ground operation in southern Lebanon began last month, Hezbollah terrorists used positions near UNFIL posts to fire numerous rockets at Israeli troops and civilians. “Over the past month, approximately 25 rockets and missiles have been launched at Israeli communities and IDF troops from Hezbollah’s terrorist compounds embedded near UNIFIL posts in southern Lebanon, exploiting their proximity to UN forces. One of the attacks resulted in the deaths of two IDF soldiers,” the Israeli military disclosed in a statement Sunday night.
UN rejects repeated Israeli pleas to vacate posts in Hezbollah-held areas
The IDF repeatedly requested the UN to remove the troops from the Hezbollah-controlled border areas. The UN, backed with some European countries such as Ireland, has rejected the Israeli pleas.
The “Irish Government has informed Israeli officials that Unifil troop movements are a matter for the UN and its force commander on the ground,” The Irish Times reported October 4. “Unifil has told Israel it will not be removing the troops.”
The UNIFIL troops, on Sunday, complained that Israeli tanks ‘destroyed’ a ‘gate’ outside one of their compounds in southern Lebanon. “Two Israeli tanks “destroyed” the main gate of a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) position in the south of the country this morning, the force says in a statement,” the BBC reported.
Hezbollah drone strike in northern Israel, 67 injured, 5 in critical condition
At least 67 people were wounded, including 5 in critically injured in a Hezbollah drone strike on Sunday evening in northern Israel. “The number of wounded in the drone attack in the Binyamina area has risen to 67, according to medics,” The Times of Israel reported. “The number of critically wounded remains at four, with five seriously injured and 14 moderately hurt.”
#Hezbollah drone attack in #Binyamina area… at least 39 injuries, 4 critical. @ariel_oseran has latest on developing situation @i24NEWS_EN pic.twitter.com/ZOVWbaBH7O
— Benita Levin (@benitalevin) October 13, 2024
This is the biggest terror strike of its kind since the Hezbollah renewed hostilities on October 8, 2023. In late July, 12 children were killed and several injured when a Hezbollah missile struck a soccer field in Golan Heights. “Dozens of casualties have been sustained from a drone strike in the Binyamin area of northern Israel; it is the highest number of casualties in a single event since the October 7 massacre,” the Israeli news website YNET reported.
🔴 UPDATE from Magen David Adom: The number injured from the Hezbollah drone attack that hit Binyamina in northern Israel, has now risen to 67, many of whom are seriously and critically injured. pic.twitter.com/t6csBJhVkf
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 13, 2024
Lebanon: IDF destroys hundreds of Hezbollah targets
The Israeli air forces and ground troops destroyed hundreds of Hezbollah targets as the ground operation in southern Lebanon nears its third week.
“IDF troops continue to operate in southern Lebanon to dismantle terrorist infrastructure,” the Israeli military said in a statement Sunday. “Over the past day, the troops eliminated dozens of terrorists, exposed tunnel shafts, and located numerous weapons including launchers, anti-tank missiles, munitions, and more.”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) hit several terrorists targeted across Lebanon. “Over the past day, the IAF has struck approximately 200 Hezbollah targets deep in Lebanon and southern Lebanon, including terrorist cells, launchers, anti-tank missile posts, and terrorist infrastructure sites,” the IDF disclosed.
⚡️TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT TO HEZBOLLAH: WATCH
•The 8th Brigade, under the 91st Division, is taking action in southern Lebanon, crushing Hezbollah fighters in face-to-face combat and wiping out their weak attempts at resistance along the border.
•IDF forces seized piles of… pic.twitter.com/mAQuaDlSm1
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 13, 2024
IDF dismantling Hamas terrorist buildup in northern Gaza
The IDF also pressed ahead with its ground operation against Hamas terrorist buildup in the area of Jabalia, northern Gaza. “[O]ver the past day, IDF troops continued to operate throughout the Gaza Strip and have struck approximately 40 terror targets and eliminated dozens of terrorists,” the military revealed.
IDF captures Hezbollah terrorist in southern Lebanon, brings him in for interrogation to Israel
Israeli military in southern Lebanon captured a Hezbollah terrorist hiding in an underground bunker, the Israel media reported. The terrorist has been brought to Israel for interrogation, the IDF confirmed Sunday.
🔴 WATCH A video of the IDF capturing a Hezbollah terrorist who came up from a tunnel. The soldiers captured the terrorist as part of the ground operation in southern Lebanon – and he has been under investigation ever since. Unit 504 investigators, who accompanied the troops,… pic.twitter.com/KymchCy1te
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 13, 2024
Israeli “troops identified a tunnel shaft inside a building leading to a 50-square-meter room some seven meters underground,” The Times of Israel reported. “The terror operative was hunkered down in the bunker, which also held weapons and supplies for an extended stay underground.”
The IDF revealed the details of the capture in a press statement:
During IDF limited, localized, targeted raids based on precise intelligence in the southern Lebanon area, soldiers discovered an underground tunnel shaft in a building leading to a hideout area for terrorists with an adjacent exit shaft
The troops encircled the building, scanned the tunnel shaft, and discovered an underground compound at a depth of approximately 7 meters and a 50-meter hideout area, where a Hezbollah terrorist was embedded alongside weapons and equipment for a long-term stay.
After the terrorist surrendered and was apprehended, the soldiers interrogated him on-site and then transferred him to a detention facility for further questioning within Israel.
WATCH⚡️
Israeli Journalist @Doron_Kadosh (one of my favorites) visited southern Lebanon again today.
He reveals how Hezbollah operates from their rat tunnels, boasting that a huge cache of weapons was seized from within from the IDF.
Hezbollah keeps a abandoning their… pic.twitter.com/xUdSh33Lp5
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 13, 2024
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UN Peacekeepers. You boys may have noticed that where you are, peace is in short supply. Get out now and come back later….or never..
If the UN deployed them inNorthern Israel, would Hezbollah not fire indiscriminantly at them along with the civilian population?
The U.N. is a greasy funder, enabler and ally of Islamofascist and Muslim terrorist/supremacist groups. It should be classified as such and treated as such.
UNIFIL has been completely useless. The UN has helped terrorists more than anything else.
Effectively the UNIFIL troops are Hezbollah auxiliaries
More like voluntary human shields. They want nothing more than an excuse to order UN forces to attack Israel. Which would be sort of funny when they learn what it’s like to get themselves killed, too.
It’s almost as if the main strategy and ultimate goal is to get Israel into a sterile, safe, secure courtroom.
………….. where everything that’s been done to Israel will be completely ignored.
Scary stuff. One hopes Israel has thought this through. I’m thinking that IDF needs to arrest some of these UN “peacekeepers.” If the UN we’re doing its job, theyd acknowledge that their mission was ultimately unsuccessful, unfortunately, and they’d leave.
Why do we fund such evil
The despicable UN is keeping its troops in Lebanon, so that when the inevitable and preventable (if the UN had withdrawn) accident happens and they are inadvertently struck by an Israeli bomb or missile or gunfire, Israel can be blamed and be on the receiving end of yet more contrived outrage and vilification.
What???? How will the terrorists fund their terror bombs and missiles not to mention hide behind the UN with constant attacks on Israel if that happens? This is beyond the pale.
Usless Ninnies have always been incompetent. Rwanda, Middle East and the rest of the world.
I hope they don’t show up here as in the movie, Amerika.
Sorry, fat thumbed your comment when I tried to upvote.
UNIFIL is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.
Now, yes, there may be a handful of countries with troops there – Italy comes to mind – where you want to avoid attacking them if possible. But if you take nations like Spain, Ireland, Malaysia and Indonesia – these are all fanatically anti-Semitic nations, and it is safe to assume their forces have deliberately aided Hezbollah by ignoring it.
Never heard that about Ireland. While the anti-British sentiment was certainly earned by the UK over the centuries, lumping Ireland in as “fanatically anti-Semitic” with 3 Muslim nations seems a stretch.
Of course, that anti-Brit sentiment is vastly washed away at this point; and while the mostly RC ROI undoubtedly has plenty of “redneck” country bumpkins who would just as soon hurl an epithet at a Protestant or foreigner of any kind*, they’re truly a people beaten and subjugated. *Just as Northern Ireland and the whole of the UK is full of “redneck” equivalents who think of Irish the same way descendants of American cotton farmers think of blacks. Or that American inner city government-raised blacks think of whites, for that matter.
Would appreciate your provision of 3 or 4 supporting statements from credible sources to start my enlightenment on the genocidal contributions of the Irish in the anti-Semitic realm.
You can google yourself. Just google “Israel Ireland” and within the last year. You will see that Ireland believes the massacres of Jews is justified and that Israel has no right to self-defense.
They will not exterminate Jews themselves, but will endorse those who do.
The UN is acting like a combatant co-conspirator in the ongoing genocide against Jews.
Govern yourselves accordingly.