UNIFIL Patrol Pelted by Rocks in Aita al-Shaab
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A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrol was pelted by rocks by residents of the southern town of Aita al-Shaab as it was taking photographs of the area, reported the National News Agency on Friday.
Spokesman for the force Andrea Tenenti said that some 50 residents halted the patrol as it approached the area, surrounded it, and began pelting it with rocks.
No one was injured in the incident, but damage was incurred to the vehicles, he added.
UNIFIL Commander Major General Paolo Serra is has voiced his concern with the incident, which he interpreted as an obstruction of the forces' mobility in the South, continued the spokesman.
This jeopardizes its peacekeeping mission, he explained, while revealing that an investigation by UNIFIL and the army has been opened in the attack.
NNA said that the assault began when the patrol sought to take photographs of the Aita al-Shaab aarea.
The residents prevented the troops from taking the photographs, but the situation escalated into a verbal dispute that ended up with the locals pelting the patrol with rocks and destroying their cameras.
An Army Intelligence unit in Bint Jbeil soon intervened to resolve the situation as the patrol withdrew from the scene.
21 February 2014, 16:53
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@ Lebanon-first I very seldom read a comment from you that is not 100% correct. thumbs up
21 February 2014, 17:23
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ensure their safety? what did the UN ever do to stop israel when they attack? terbih jmileh 3a chou? because of the way you talk i could call you a a za3ran ibn za3ran, but i will abstain because i know nothing about your father, he might be more civilized than you.
what is stupid however, and quite hateful of you, is how you insult them without knowing why they reacted like this. 50 people get angered, can't you give them a minimum of credit before considering they are all wrong? the people in the south are usually very friendly and hospitable, but you can't mess with certain things there.
in the past there was an issue like this because UN soldiers took pictures (accidentally or not) of women in their houses, through the windows when they weren't wearing their veils. the situation now could be similar. try to know at least the facts before judging.
21 February 2014, 17:31
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your own country's soldiers get killed every day in tripoli, in saida, in arsal >>> not a word.
a few rocks thrown at UN soldiers you get enraged? lek tfouu 3aleik w hek double standards.
21 February 2014, 17:53
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Lebanese Forces always ensuring the West and Israel comes to Lebanon for "peace"
21 February 2014, 18:47
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3- During the war of 2006, some women around me did a drive to collect food and clothing the help the shiite refugees here. The shiite took everything and complained that it wasnt enough. They didnt even say thank you. (So used to be assisted that they imagined it was our obligation to help them)
Also, I sent some people over to a school where able bodied (non militia) men were sitting smoking arguileh all day, offering them work. They said "no need, Hassan will provide"
A number of my employees are shiites. And they themselves advise me against hiring more of their correligionists. Are they sectarians against themselves?
Your accusations of sectarianism are cheap.
21 February 2014, 18:47
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Mowaten.
1- It is Unifil's duty to keep a certain stability. The main point here is that they are expats away from their families working for the benefit of Lebanon. You are missing the point by insisting on their exact mission.
2-Assir, Tebbaneh... all these lowlives are a creation of HA. Hariri offered a moderate sunnism to Lebanon, HA threw him b3ard el 7a2it, Assad the allies of HA, killed his father, and they marginalized the sunni community (like the christian has been marginalized). All these lowlives assir, tabbaneh were created because of HA's internal cold coup in Lebanon. HA, Assad and Iran are the root cause of these army attacks.
21 February 2014, 18:59
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lol i bet the lack of rain this year is also HA's fault.
besides that, your sectarian bias was clear in your point "n3" above. you're clearly not someone who can see things rationally or objectively, so i'm not interested in further discussing this with you, it's like talking to a wall. a hateful wall.
21 February 2014, 18:52
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Instead of condemning the act that his tribe carried out, the paid mouthpiece sits here and writes page after page of ridiculous justifications. Pity those with blind prejudice:(
21 February 2014, 18:56
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lol you're taking your dreams for realities. it's your soldiers who ran with their tails between their legs.
21 February 2014, 19:04
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@HajHusein: you don't need these ignorant people to prove to us that HA won the war in 2006. It is so unlike you to get down to this level.... stay above this kind of rhetoric. The next war might be just round the corner, and we will see HA invading Tel Aviv, Inshallah:)
