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Source: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-824368
Netanyahu: "Time to Remove UNIFIL from Hizbullah Strongholds"
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Netanyahu told Guterres "to remove UNIFIL from Hizbullah strongholds and from the fighting areas....We regret the harm to UNIFIL soldiers, and we are doing our utmost to prevent such harm. But the simplest and most obvious way to ensure this is simply to withdraw them from the danger zone." There have been a number of incidents in which IDF fire hit UNIFIL bases, injuring some of the peacekeepers. In one incident, very close to a UNIFIL post, Hizbullah fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli troops. A tank helping evacuate the casualties under fire then backed into the UNIFIL post in Ramyah, destroying the main gate. "It was not storming a base. It was not trying to enter a base. It was a tank under heavy fire at a mass casualty event, backing up to get out of harm's way," said IDF international spokesperson Nadav Shoshani. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said Sunday, "Hizbullah terrorists are using UNIFIL outposts as hiding places and as places for ambushes. The UN's insistence on keeping the UNIFIL soldiers in the line of fire is incomprehensible."