Senator Lindsey Graham som tillsammans med en grupp senatorer från USA besökte Israel i dag sade att UNIFIL (FN:s fredstrupper i Libanon) misslyckats i sin uppgift. Om rapporten nedan stämmer så finns det fog för hans påståenden.
UNIFIL PEACEKEEPERS ACCUSE LEBANESE ARMY OF HINDERING THEIR WORK (Jerusalem Post)
The UN force in Lebanon has accused Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army of hampering their work, which includes spying on the peacekeepers, in a report due to appear on the website of French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, on Friday.
A former liaison officer with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, who was only recently transferred to another post, told the newspaper that “when we would detect military activities in our area, especially near the Blue Line [border with Israel], the Lebanese Army would prevent us from posting observers. It is as if those decisions did not come from them. Everyone knows that Hezbollah is using the area for the next war.”
A Finnish commander suggested to the French paper that some forces associated with UNIFIL might also be assisting Hezbollah.
“I can assure you that Indonesian peacekeepers are constantly reporting Israeli movements to various Lebanese actors,” the commander is quoted as saying. He added that some of the civilian employees “do not hide their Hezbollah membership.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has said while UNIFIL is helping to maintain calm in southern Lebanon, its leadership does not do enough to prevent Hezbollah from violating the resolution. Eisenkot has accused Hezbollah of continuing to prepare itself for war in villages, cities and towns south of the Litani River, “arming itself with more lethal and accurate weapons to harm the Israeli home front.”
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