Israel Invades Lebanon, UN Peacekeepers Simply Watch

BEIRUT – Israel has introduced a land invasion to Lebanon below the pretext of preventing the Hezbollah workforce, Tuesday (1/10/2024).

UN Secretary Normal Antonio Guterres admitted that the UN peacekeeping power in Lebanon or UNIFIL may just now not do a lot even supposing they remained of their positions.

Guterres’ spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, stated UNIFIL forces have been not able to hold out their venture.

“Given the depth of the rockets flying at every different, they could not patrol,” Dujarric stated.

“The depth of the preventing is hindering their motion,” he stated once more.

UNIFIL has been in Lebanon since 1978 and has roughly 10,000 “Blue Helmets” within the nation.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) in a statement in X stated the bottom invasion as a part of Operation Northern Arrow had begun in southern Lebanon.

“This operation was once aimed toward goals and infrastructure of the Hezbollah group, in a variety of villages close to the border, which pose an immediate and actual danger to Israeli settlements at the northern border,” the IDF commentary stated.

The IDF added that the bottom operation have been licensed and was once being performed based on choices on the political stage of the federal government of Top Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu.