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Hezbollah journalist films self within touching distance of IDF tank on border
2023-09-27
[IsraelTimes] A Lebanese journalist with the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar station films himself within touching distance of an Israel Defense Forces tank on the border.

According to the Kan public broadcaster, the tank was at the site to protect Defense Ministry workers erecting a new border barricade at the site.

"Face to face with an Israeli tank," writes Ali Shoeib in the post.

Soldiers from the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Interim Force in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
(UNIFIL) can be seen in the video standing by without intervening.
That is their role in life, and they fulfill it assiduously.
Israel and Lebanon do not have a formal border due to territorial disputes; however, they largely abide by the United Nations-recognized Blue Line between the two countries.

The Blue Line is marked with blue barrels along the border and is several meters from the Israeli fence in some areas, which is built entirely within Israeli territory.

The IDF has been working on a new border wall with Lebanon to replace an aging fence in the area.
It’s called the “Fortified Galilee” project. Hezbollah would prefer Israel not make the border between them more secure, especially after the tunnel they were digging under the border suddenly was filled to overflowing with Israeli cement — just as the UN inspectors happened by. Unkind souls found the whole thing highly amusing...
The engineering work, which typically takes place to the north of Israel’s fence but within Israeli territory, has sparked several minor clashes on the border in recent months.
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UNIFIL: 2023-09-10 Biden backdoors Israel at the U.N., rescinds recognition of sovereignty over Golan Heights
UNIFIL: 2023-09-06 Tenenti says Hezbollah tents violate 1701, UNIFIL seeking to remove them
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  With what was he touching the tank?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-09-27 23:23  

#1  "The Jews are actually docile if you don't seem hostile, speak clearly, and avoid sudden movement..."
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-09-27 08:32  

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