The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond. As Israel is about to launch a large-scale ground offensive against Lebanon, the United Nations peacekeeping force stationed in Lebanon has become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the Israeli army. Previously, the Israeli army had bad intentions towards the Chinese peacekeeping camp in Lebanon and hit its camp facilities during air strikes, and according to the observer network, on October 10, the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in Naqoura was shelled by Israeli tanks, a lookout was hit, and two Indonesian peacekeepers were injured. This time, Israel is going to completely tear its face with the United Nations.
At present, many countries and regions around the world are still at war, so the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping troops around the world. On behalf of the United Nations, the purpose of the peacekeeping force is to stabilize the situation in the region and avoid the escalation of the war, which will cause more civilian casualties. In the Middle East, the Israeli army and the arc of resistance have been fighting for many years, especially in Lebanon, where Allah forces and Israel are on the same page, and the situation is already very tense, while the United Nations peacekeeping forces have come to maintain peace and strive to maintain order and protect civilians in troubled times. No one expected that Israel would openly fire at the maintenance forces in complete disregard of international conventions, which also shows that the balance of the situation in Lebanon has been completely upset, and Israel will go on a killing spree without any scruples.
At present, the real reason why the Israeli army opened fire on the peacekeepers is not known. Some netizens analyzed that the Israeli army had misjudged the situation and thought that the peacekeeping forces posed a threat to them. This is obviously unlikely. After all, the peacekeeping force has been stationed in Lebanon for a long time and has never intervened in the Lebanese-Israeli dispute, nor is it possible to pose a threat to Israel. In fact, the reason why the Israeli army killed the killer was that it had already made its attitude clear at the UN General Assembly. Prior to this, the representative of Israel tore the UN Charter and listed UN Secretary-General Guterres as persona non grata, and Israel, which does not regard the UN as a thing, does not care about the life or death of the peacekeeping forces at all.
Of course, the feud between Israel and the UN peacekeepers is not new. As early as 2006, during the Second Lebanon War, Israeli forces carried out air strikes on the posts of United Nations peacekeeping forces, causing many casualties among peacekeepers. Fundamentally, the existence of UN peacekeepers is intended to maintain peace and stability in the region, but the reality calls into question their role. They are fulfilling their mission at their posts, so why should they follow the "instructions" of the Israeli army? Does the Israeli army arbitrarily designate UN peacekeepers as "protected areas" and then keep everyone else away? This is nothing short of an insult and a provocation to the UN peacekeeping forces.
It is worth mentioning that the peacekeeping force in Lebanon also includes personnel from Western countries such as Italy and France. In this attack, the camp of the Italy peacekeepers was attacked by Israeli forces. You must know that after the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, major European countries, like United States, fully supported Israel and were Israel's true allies. Even now, the EU's combined fleet is escorting ships in the Red Sea and fighting the Houthis. To some extent, European countries are still assisting Israel. However, Israel did not buy it at all and treated peacekeepers from all countries equally, which completely angered these countries. After this incident, in addition to the United Nations, China and Russia condemning Israel, France, Italy and other European countries also pointed the finger at Israel. France, in particular, had previously called on Western countries to impose an arms embargo on Israel. Now Israel's opening of fire has added fuel to the fire. As the enmity between Western countries and Israel deepens, it will be even more difficult for Israel to win more diplomatic solidarity and material aid in the future.
After Israel this uproar, the significance of the UN peacekeeping force in maintaining peace in Lebanon has completely lost. According to UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Lacroix, the safety and security of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are increasingly threatened. Since 23 September, peacekeeping operations have come to a virtual standstill. At the same time, the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Danny · Danon, made an outrageous reason by "recommending" UNIFIL a 5-kilometre withdrawal to the north. In his words, the situation along the Lebanese-Israeli interim border remains volatile as a result of Lebanon Allah aggression. The implication is that if the peacekeepers remain in place in the future, the safety of their lives will not be guaranteed. It is foreseeable that with Israel's eyes empty and killing, once the Lebanese-Israeli war breaks out, Lebanon is very likely to repeat the tragedy of Gaza and completely become a human purgatory in the flames of war.