Israël & de Palestijnse gebieden #64 - Altijd gezeik

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 14:44 schreef Roi het volgende:
Al die doden na aanleiding van een omgekapt boompje, lekker zinvol weer allemaal!

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Gepubliceerd: vandaag 15:04
Update: vandaag 15:20

Israël heeft Libanon dinsdag na het vuurgevecht gedreigd met ,,consequenties'' als er meer ongeregeldheden volgen aan de grens tussen beide landen.

Israël houdt de Libanese regering verantwoordelijk voor het schietincident tussen Libanese en Israëlische militairen, waarbij vier doden vielen aan Libanese zijde. Dat heeft het Israëlische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken in een verklaring naar buiten gebracht.

Israël noemt het schietincident ,,een flagrante schending van resolutie 1701 van de VN-Veiligheidsraad''. Volgens Jeruzalem ,,is de schending van vandaag de laatste in een lange serie schendingen van resolutie 1701, waaronder vooral de enorme herbewapening van Hezbollah''.

Staakt-het-vuren

Resolutie 1701 werd in 2006 aangenomen door de VN-Veiligheidsraad. Hierin werden Israël en Libanon opgeroepen tot een staakt-het-vuren. Vier jaar geleden woedde een oorlog tussen Israël en de Libanese beweging Hezbollah. In die oorlog kwamen circa 1300 mensen om, vooral Libanezen.

De Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Avigdor Lieberman, heeft dinsdag instructies aan de Israëlische vertegenwoordiging bij de VN gegeven om een klacht in te dienen over het vuurgevecht.

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Lebanese president: Stand up to Israel
Michel Suleiman vows to stand up to Israel 'at any price,' says Israel violated UN resolution

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has vowed to "stand up to Israel's violation of Resolution 1701, whatever the price" following the border flare-up between the Lebanese and Israeli armies Tuesday.
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and four were wounded after the IDF struck a post near the southern Lebanese border village of Adaisseh, witnesses and security sources said. An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a Lebanese army post near Adaisseh, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, a Lebanese security source said.

A Lebanese journalist was also killed in the skirmish, local sources said.
However, Israel's Foreign Ministry said it "holds the Lebanese government responsible for the serious incident and warns against repercussions should such violations continue."

"Israel views the attack on an IDF force that operated in coordination with UNIFIL in the border area in recent hours a blatant violation of Security Council Resolution 1701," the Foreign Ministry said in a mission.

Meanwhile, Israel's UN mission plans to file a complaint on the matter with the organization's chief and with the Security Council.
IDF, Hezbollah exchange threats
Israel marked four years to the Second Lebanon War last month as tensions grew on the northern border amid fears that Hezbollah may seek to prompt a regional flare-up.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague's plan to indict senior Hezbollah officials over the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has caused growing concern among local leaders this may prompt the Shiite group to respond with violence in order to undermine stability in the region.
About three weeks ago, the IDF published photos of Hezbollah's massive military buildup in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel. Aerial photos of an area village showed sites where, according to the army, Hezbollah had been accumulating various weapons.
Colonel Ronen Merli, commander of the Western Division on the northern border, said at the time that given Hezbollah's preparations, "an incident may take place today or in a year. I'm prepared for this to happen by surprise without being told about it."

"We're operating in various ways in order to thwart any incident, and if one does take place, we'll know how to handle it," he said.

Later, Hezbollah responded to Israel's charges, with a senior group figure warning that "the enemy's leadership should know that we too have a target bank."

"They know well that all their threats shall go down in the face of the surprises prepared by the resistance," he said.

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3 Lebanese soldiers, journalist killed in clash on Israel-Lebanon border
Quiet on northern front shatters as IDF and the Lebanese army exchange fire and Katyusha rocket reportedly strikes Upper Galilee.
Israel Defense Forces exchanged fire with the Lebanese army on Tuesday, killing three Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist, in what appeared to be the most serious military confrontation since Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006.

The Lebanese army confirmed that two of its troops had been killed when Israeli forces fired on a vehicle in which they were traveling, setting it on fire and wounding another.

In Lebanon, security sources said that Israeli shells fired at the southern Lebanese border village of Aadassi hit a house, wounding two - a soldier and a civilian.

Lebanese troops responded with artillery fire, Lebanese press reports said, while eyewitnesses said fire had broken out in two buildings in the village.

"It started when the Israelis wanted to cut a tree down inside Lebanon," one security source in Lebanon said. "The Lebanese army fired warning shots at them and they responded by shelling."

The Lebanese al-Nahar newspaper reported that a journalist from the al-Akhbar newspaper was killed during the clash.

_{A frame from television footage showing smoke from weapons fire on Israel's northern border, August 3, 2010.}

Since the end of the Second Lebanon War, the IDF has conducted patrols up to the international border, which in some places is on the Lebanese side of the border fence. It is possible that Tuesday's incident was caused by one of the sides misidentifying the correct location of the border. In Lebanon, there was a report that Lebanese soldiers had demanded that Israeli troops leave the area before the exchange of fire took place.

Responding to the incident, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman authorized Israel's UN ambassador Gabriella Shalev to lodge an official complaint against Lebanon with the UN Security Council.

IDF troops deployed near Israel's northern border after clashes with Lebanese troops, August 3, 2010.

Photo by: Zahal Kaminiski

In a statement, the Israeli government blamed Lebanon for provoking the clash, saying it took a particularly grave view of the action as IDF soldiers had been working in complete coordination with UN peacekeepers.

"Israel sees this incident as a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, one of a long line of violations, first of which is the massive arming of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," the statement read. "Israel views the government of Lebanon as responsible for this grave event and warns of possible consequences if these violations continue."

Also on Tuesday there were reports that a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Galilee - but police dispatched to the area could find no trace of an impact.

Residents living close to border reported hearing several loud explosions.

Aharon Valensi, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, told television news that residents of the area had been told to take cover in bomb shelters.

"We're ready," he said. "The IDF prepared us for situations like this and we just hope that it is only a localized incident."

Israeli military engineering units maintain a security fence along the border with southern Lebanon. The region has traditionally been a stronghold for Hezbollah but regular Lebanese troops returned to the area in 2006 following Israel's summer war with the Shi'a militant group.

A 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, is also deployed in the area.

Following news of the incident, UNIFIL issued a statement calling on both armies to show "maximum restraint" and prevent an escalation of hostilities.

Tuesday's clash follows rocket attacks on Monday on the southern city of Eilat and neighboring Aqaba in Jordan, in which a Jordanian citizen was killed and five others were injured.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 16:00 schreef Roi het volgende:

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Aardig van deze meneer.

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Israël noemt het schietincident ,,een flagrante schending van resolutie 1701 van de VN-Veiligheidsraad''. Volgens Jeruzalem ,,is de schending van vandaag de laatste in een lange serie schendingen van resolutie 1701, waaronder vooral de enorme herbewapening van Hezbollah''.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 18:01 schreef Weltschmerz het volgende:

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Hier wordt toch wel even een spectaculaire ontwikkeling zomaar even tussen neus en lippen door vermeld: Israël hecht waarde aan het naleven van VN-resoluties. Nu kan vrede niet ver weg meer zijn.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 18:18 schreef Viajero het volgende:

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Zoals ik al eerder hier zei, Israel houdt zich net zo goed en zo slecht aan die resoluties als de buren. De meeste resoluties hebben ook voorwaarden voor Israel's buren, en die houden zich daar net zo hard niet aan. Dat komt alleen nooit in het nieuws, omdat het leuker is om over Israel te zeuren dan een evenwichtige versie van de waarheid te brengen.

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Op vrijdag 6 augustus 2010 01:21 schreef Lord_Horatio het volgende:
Is het niet handig om een standaard OP te maken en deze dan ook in de openingspost te zetten zodat men deze altijd kan overnemen?

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Op vrijdag 6 augustus 2010 01:21 schreef Lord_Horatio het volgende:
Is het niet handig om een standaard OP te maken en deze dan ook in de openingspost te zetten zodat men deze altijd kan overnemen?

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Op vrijdag 6 augustus 2010 00:54 schreef Kees22 het volgende:

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Dat maakt de opmerking van Weltschmerz niet minder relevant.

Los daarvan ziet het er voor mij zo uit: de Israeli's halen een boom weg die hun uitzicht belemmert of zo. Buiten het hek, maar wel binnen hun territorium. Libanese soldaten doen wat soldaten doen als ze denken dat hun grenzen overschreden worden: ze gaan schieten. Edit: Ja, als er ergens een hek staat, denk je natuurlijk dat dat de grens is. Toch?
De Israeli's schieten terug en geven de regering van Libanon de schuld van de commotie en dreigen passende maatregelen te nemen.
Oh ja: en ze wijzen gelijk op schendingen van VN-resoluties, dan hebben ze dekking.

Ik weet het niet, maar woorden als "hek", "vernielen van een boom", "VN-resoluties" komen me toch wel vertrouwd voor.

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Op vrijdag 6 augustus 2010 09:19 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Wat is mis met de huidige OP? Die is ook in het vorige topic gebruikt?

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Op vrijdag 6 augustus 2010 18:26 schreef Viajero het volgende:

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Je wil zeggen dat Libanese grenstroepen zo slecht getraind zijn dat ze niet weten waar de grens is?