A report that undermines itself by uncritically accepting Hamas claims that it did not target civilians:
Israel Bombs Mosque in Deir al-Balah, Gaza’s 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 they’re 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 they’re there to dissuade military action by their mere presence: they’re not just there, but you know they have a home country and the UN who know they’re there, so you can’t try shit and pretend nobody’s watching.
The trouble is when one (or both) of the sides involved has decided that they don’t care if anyone’s watching, whether because they haven’t 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 there’s no point refraining.
… good job everybody 
Kind of hard to expect Ireland to keep the peace when America has decided it’s 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 ‘monitor, observe and report’. We could only use our arms in self defense. If the Serbian army felt like invading Macedonia there wasn’t 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%.
Hezbollah’s approval among non-Shia rises from 5% to14%.
The full report:
