International incidents during the 2006 Lebanon War

Aftermath of IDF airstrike on UN patrol base Khiam, Lebanon, 2006
The entrance to the UN base where four UN peacekeepers were killed during the 2006 Lebanon conflict

During the 2006 July War, a number of international incidents occurred in Lebanon, largely involving United Nations personnel who have come under a number of attacks by Israeli forces.

Most notably on 25 July 2006, four unarmed United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) peacekeepers were killed during an Israeli air strike on a UN observation post in southern Lebanon. Israel later stated that the attack was an error due to the incorrect identification of the UN position as a militant enemy post. The observation post was built in 1948, had clear UN markings, and UN staff (including Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown) had contacted the IDF at least 14 times telling them to call off the attack.[1]

  1. ^ McCarthy, Rory; MacAskill, Ewen (14 September 2006). "Israel blames map error for UN deaths in bombing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 November 2023.

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