A report that undermines itself by uncritically accepting Hamas claims that it did not target civilians:
Israel Bombs Mosque in Deir al-Balah, Gazaâs Last Standing City
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-mosque-in-deir-al-bala
Medical Aid for Palestinans:
After a year of catastrophic failure, the international community must act urgently to protect Palestinian survival in Gaza
⌠if theyâre not going to engage one side or the other, why are they even there 
One might ask the same about the Belgian troops in Rwanda in 1994.
I think the general idea is that theyâre there to dissuade military action by their mere presence: theyâre not just there, but you know they have a home country and the UN who know theyâre there, so you canât try shit and pretend nobodyâs watching.
The trouble is when one (or both) of the sides involved has decided that they donât care if anyoneâs watching, whether because they havenât thought it through that far, or because they have a reasonable expectation that the only people who are going to hold them responsible were going to attack them anyway, so thereâs no point refraining.
⌠good job everybody 
Kind of hard to expect Ireland to keep the peace when America has decided itâs going to Chamberlain the hell out of everything.
I did look up the UNIFIL mission statement.
I was on the UNPREDEP UN peacekeeping mission in what is now North Macedonia. Our mandate was to âmonitor, observe and reportâ. We could only use our arms in self defense. If the Serbian army felt like invading Macedonia there wasnât anything we could do except report on troop movements and effects.
The Arab Barometer poll was released today for the Lebanese:
Approval of the US collapses from 42% in 2022 to 19% today.
Approval of Iran grows from 28% to 36%.
Hezbollahâs approval among non-Shia rises from 5% to14%.
The full report:
âItâs all your fault for not overthrowing the powerful armed movement that we canât destroy.â
