UN: Israel Deliberately Targeted Peacekeeper in Lebanon!

• UN: Israel Deliberately Targeted Peacekeeper in Lebanon! 
  by Jason Ditz, http://antiwar.com/ 
  UNIFIL Says Strikes Obviously Aimed at Observation Tower
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  Three weeks ago, Israeli artillery “retaliated” for a cross-border Hezbollah attack, and ended up killing a Spanish soldier with the UN observer force, UNIFIL. The UNIFIL now believes Israel deliberately targeted them.
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  Hezbollah conducted the attack in retaliation for the January Israeli attack in Syria, which killed some of Hezbollah’s top anti-ISIS fighters. They killed two Israeli soldiers with anti-tank missiles, and said that was the end of it.
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  UNIFIL officials say Israel never even attempted to fire at the Hezbollah forces that were attacking them, and instead focused their artillery directly at the UNIFIL observation tower, with strikes getting closer until they finally hit it, killing soldier Francisco Javier Soria Toledo.
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  The UN believes that attack was meant to “punish” the peacekeepers for not stopping Hezbollah from conducting the attack, though the lightly armed UNIFIL force is primarily there to document cross-border incidents, not prevent them.

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