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Netanyahu Accuses UN Secretary General of "Making UNIFIL Soldiers Hostages of Hizbullah"
(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday made an on-camera appeal in English to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to pull UNIFIL forces away from the fighting in South Lebanon. "Mr. Secretary General, Get the UNIFIL forces out of harm's way. It should be done right now, immediately," Netanyahu said. He said the IDF had repeatedly asked that UNIFIL move out of the area where fighting was taking place and was repeatedly refused. "Your refusal to remove the troops makes the UNIFIL forces hostages in the hands of Hizbullah....Unfortunately, several European leaders are applying pressure in the wrong place. Instead of criticizing Israel, they need to direct their criticism at Hizbullah which is using UNIFIL as a human shield just like Hamas used UNRWA in Gaza."