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Skrevet av Dutch Veteran pages
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mandag 18. desember 2006 |
| The following was written by captain Special Operations Thomas Milo:
I feel I must spell out that I find the Israeli claim that they never target civilians or UN positions, outrageous.
As an officer in the Dutch contingent of Unifil in 1980 I have personal experience of a UN observation post next to a 150 mm gun position in the southernmost hills in Lebanon overlooking the orchards all the way towards Tyre. The gun was guarded by what the UN technically referred to as De Facto Forces (DFF - Lebanese militiamen, as they weren't recognized belligerents in the sense of the Geneva Convention).
Two, three times a week a car would come in from the Israeli side of the border with a load of IDF (Israeli Defence Force) types, dressed up as civilians. Then the gun would fire a handful of rounds into the city of Tyre. Of course, as with all ordnance, they usually missed. But every once in a while, splash, in the middle of a square filled with schoolchildren. Or an apartment building. Or a marketplace. There were never camera crews around to take the ensuing scenes to a larger audience, but I assure you they weren't much different form the ones filmed at UNIFIL Fijibat post 1.11 in Qana, or the images from Sarajevo for that matter.
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