Thirty Minutes of Gunfire Just Changed EVERYTHING in Lebanon

Israel has been stealing land yet again and for a change its not from Palestine, but firing at the witnesses wasn't a good idea either... Right, so Israel have been busy redrawing borders in their favour again, and they didn’t even bother pretending otherwise this time. The UN has measured the concrete, mapped the breaches, and written down exactly where Israel has shoved its latest wall across the Blue Line. Lebanon has filed the complaint, UNIFIL has logged the violations, and the only people acting surprised are the ones who always act surprised when Israel helps itself to land that isn’t theirs. And just to underline the point, when peacekeepers went out to verify the second breach, an Israeli tank positioned inside Lebanon opened fire and put rounds about five metres from their boots. You don’t need a panel discussion to work out what’s going on here. Israel builds where it wants, denies it’s done it, expands it anyway, says its their right and even fires at the UN when the UN tries to prove it. Well its not like the UN will do anything I suppose is it? Right, so Israel has been building walls inside Lebanon now, and the UN has measured every metre of it. That’s where this story starts. You don’t need speculation, you don’t need political spin, you don’t need to guess what’s going on, because the only people with the legal authority to determine whether the Blue Line, the border between the two states, has been crossed are the UN peacekeepers whose entire mandate is built on maintaining that boundary. And those peacekeepers have now mapped not one, but several Israeli structures that fall inside Lebanese territory. They’ve logged the coordinates, they’ve produced the geospatial surveys, they’ve issued the warnings, they’ve told the Israeli army to stop, and Israel hasn’t stopped. In fact, it’s done the opposite. It has carried on, expanded the wall, produced a second breach, dug in a tank position north of the Blue Line, and then fired on the peacekeepers who were documenting the violations. That’s the story.