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The United Nations said on Sunday Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks that have been denounced by Israel's own allies.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the United Nations to evacuate the troops of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force from combat areas in Lebanon. Hours later, the force reported what it described as additional Israeli violations, including two Israeli Merkava tanks destroying the main gate of a base and forcibly entering before dawn that morning.

Soon after the tanks left, shells exploded 100 metres away, releasing smoke which blew across the base and sickened U.N. personnel, causing 15 to require treatment despite wearing gas masks, it said. It did not say who fired the shells or what sort of toxic substance it suspected.

It also accused Israel's IDF military of halting a logistics convoy. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to the statement.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago
[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 56 points 1 month ago

I had a good feeling you were being sarcastic... but I have former acquaintances who have unironically posted things along the lines of "The UN says Israel's doing war crimes? They must have been paid off by Hamas."

So yeah, hard to tell nowadays.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

You can't possibly believe that.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago

I thought "X is Hamas" is a fairly well established meme on Lemmy by this point.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like I said elsewhere: Poe's Law. There are people who actually believe that sort of nonsense unfortunately.

Edit: In fact, someone just replied to me agreeing with you, except they're serious.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Oh, but they do Squid. Their comment/post history tells the story.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

That's not true. You should look again at their comment history. Their comment above was making fun of Israel's tendency to retroactively label whoever they kill as Hamas.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Bullshit, I went through their post history and it isn't zionist. Stop that.

[-] StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago

Why the fuck are you lying about something we can all so easily verify?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're either perpetuating the deep sarcasm or you ain't reading right. 😅 If the former - applause.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

It's also untrue. Check their history for yourself. They're critical of Israel and sympathetic to the people Israel is bombing.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago

They're lying to you.

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