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- europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Irish soldiers, who are serving as peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, have come under fire while on a joint patrol with the Lebanese Armed Forces, the Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) has said.
The incident happened near the Blue Line in South Lebanon.
A number of small arm rounds were fired in the vicinity of the area in which the patrol was operating, the Irish Defence Force said.
There were no reported injuries and no damage to the armoured vehicles they were operating from.
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Fucking Israeli war criminals again.
have come under fire
Oh, prime example of the weasel-passive.
IDF shoots at Irish peacekeepers is the correct headline.
Hey, you can’t say that! Pretty sure that’s antisemitism!
The correct headline should be IDF defends itself from Hamas, in Lebanon
Give credit to the BBC for not saying the IDF “IIrish defence forces” were fired upon in Lebanon while in the vicinity of the Lebanese army. Baby steps
Assualts?
This is now the second time Israel has fired at Irish peacekeepers.
Pro-genocide Israelis hate the Irish in particular, because Ireland consistently has the largest support for the Palestinian cause in all of Europe. As recent victims of violent imperialism the Irish know it when they see it.
I’m across the pond, and I’ve heard the term “Paddystinians” more than once. I thought I remembered reading that the IRA taught the PLO how to rig up car bombs, but I may be mistaken about that.
I believe the IRA ran guns to the PLO, from memory.
Did a little digging, and we might both be right. (Not me about the cars though)
The other way around too if I wasn’t tricked by random internet people.
Mad respect to Ireland for walking the walk regarding Palestine. These are people with recent memories of similar oppression.
Is the IDF so ill-disciplined and sickened culturally that taking potshots at peacekeepers is just something that ‘happens’? Or is someone up the command structure giving veiled orders to harass international peacekeepers in the hopes of forcing an incident which would benefit the far-right Israeli government’s aims of minimizing foreign observation and/or portraying the outside world as universally hostile towards poor, oppressed Israel?
This “oopsie woopsie we shot in your general direction” has happened more than enough to call it a structural problem which can only persist with support from the highest levels.
Any normal country leader needs to learn only once that his soldiers shot at friendly observers and he’d shit that shut down permanently. Netanyahu obviously knows about these shootings as it’s continuously on the world news but shit hasnt been shut down, so you can pretty much assume it all has his blessings
The leash is kept so loose it might not even be held at all.
I would posit that they knew right well they were shooting at Irish peacekeepers and took glee in it. They were “go back” warning shots. Ireland’s not super popular in Israel at the moment.
There was an incident a few months back where they were fired at before and, to the best of my recollection, the entire contingent had to spend the day in bunkers.
Pure speculation on my part though. It has happened to other peacekeeping groups too.
If they keep this up some quality bloke from the good IDF is gonna paste a shit bloke from the bad IDF and it will be fully deserved.
Any country who respect themselves would fight the idf when they target their peacemakers
Yeah, but the Irish have a particularly nasty structure around their rules of engagement due to their ongoing policy of diplomatic neutrality. Granted they also just became a nation again (in the country time scale anyway) through a “non-war” that ended many British lives, so I guess we’ll see how much they’re willing to tank shots before their government officially goes “Alright, peacekeeping for the UN or not, return fire next time.”
Ireland gained independence in 1922 and sovereignty in 1949. This makes it one of the older countries in the world currently.
Is it actually? Damn the nation state turnover rate is faster than I remember last time I’d checked!
And it barely appears in the media. I didn’t even know it had happened before.
Although I can only imagine faux the outrage and huge headlines across the world if they defended themselves.
