Netanyahu Tells UN To Move Lebanon Peacekeepers Out Of 'Harm's Way'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the United Nations to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of harm’s way, claiming Hezbollah used them as human shields.

Netanyahu’s appeal to UN chief, Antonio Guterres, comes after the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL refused to withdraw from the border area, despite five of its members being injured amid recent fighting.

Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting, he said Israeli forces had asked UNIFIL several times to leave but it had met with repeated refusals that provided a human shield to Hezbollah terrorists.

UNIFIL, a mission of about nine thousand five hundred troops of various nationalities, was created following Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon.

It is currently tasked with monitoring a ceasefire that ended a thirty three-day war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah.

 

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