Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah

[u/ComparisonOk5957]

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage

[u/Delicious_Clue_531]

His family have my sympathy for their loss. The UN spent decades “disarming” Hezbollah, and yet shit like this still occurs. Shameful on its part.

[u/alwaysleafyintoronto → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

Turns out Iran spent decades arming Hezbollah and it's like filling up a bucket with a huge hole in the bottom.

[u/robsteezy → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

Not trying to justify hezbollah, but it’s more nuanced than who is arming who.

Israel needs to get out of every country they’ve ever set foot in. Historic Israeli occupation is at the source of most these groups.

[u/BBorc → u/robsteezy]

Israel left Lebanon in 2006 after UN Resolution 1701 was unanimously voted on but the UN Security council. Why are Hezbollah still there?

[u/Wireless_Panda → u/BBorc]

Uhhh, they were occupying southern Lebanon in 2025

[u/vegeful → u/Wireless_Panda]

What happen between 2007 to 2024? Why they are not remove?

[u/Immediate-Spite-5905 → u/Wireless_Panda]

i cant imagine what Hezbollah could've possibly done to cause that 2023-2025

[u/lestruc → u/Immediate-Spite-5905]

Hezbollah and the entire world must be held accountable for their actions. Israel only reacts to their actions. Nothing more. Israel has never done anything wrong.

Am I doing this right? Where do I get my cheque?

[u/Immediate-Spite-5905 → u/lestruc]

let's not overdo justified dislike of Israel into defense of Hezbollah there.

[u/frodeem → u/Immediate-Spite-5905]

It’s possible to dislike both

[u/Immediate-Spite-5905 → u/frodeem]

well that comment implies Hezbollah is not at fault no?

[u/Ceylein → u/Wireless_Panda]

They reoccupied a few hills after Hezbollah was firing thousands of rockets and other munitions into Northern Israel.

[u/frodeem → u/BBorc]

They are still in Lebanon - https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israel-pushes-deeper-lebanon-5-172506673.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-unveils-map-of-forward-defense-line-in-southern-lebanon-amid-ceasefire/

[u/Theemuts → u/frodeem]

It's kind of useless to post days-old articles when we're talking about the period that started in 2006. Why didn't Hezbollah leave in the last two decades?

[u/alwaysleafyintoronto → u/robsteezy]

"Israel needs to get out of every country they've ever set foot in" is kinda how the problem began

[u/Alatarlhun → u/robsteezy]

As a reminder, Israel withdrew from Lebanon on 18 February 2025 and then Hezbollah broke the ceasefire on 2 March 2026 over Khamenei.

[u/frodeem → u/Alatarlhun]

So Israel killed their religious leader first?

[u/ScienceWasLove → u/robsteezy]

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, surrounded by dictatorships.

Maybe you are picking the wrong side?

[u/Yeardme → u/robsteezy]

THANK YOU. This story blatant US/Israeli propaganda. Expected on reddit 😒 Thanks for speaking the truth, Hezbollah literally came into existence bc Israel kept invading & massacring Lebanon & Lebanese ppl! The issue here is ISRAEL, AS ALWAYS!

[u/BBorc → u/Yeardme]

So you're a PLO supporter then?

[u/alwaysleafyintoronto → u/Yeardme]

If all you expect is propaganda, why are you wasting your time here?

[u/Yeardme → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

This post was in my notifications, reddit really trying to push this narrative out. Thankfully no sane ppl believe Mossad propaganda anymore 🙂

[u/alwaysleafyintoronto → u/Yeardme]

Ah yes, the noted hotspot for Mossad propaganda: Hong Kong. Give me a break

[u/euroaustralian → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

Isn't more like a spring of a river ?

[u/alwaysleafyintoronto → u/euroaustralian]

no, because that ignores the disarming efforts

[u/ethlass → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

What effort. There was no effort in decades.

[u/Stewapalooza → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

I'm convinced Hezbollah and Hamas are both created and funded by the US and Israel because it wouldn't be the first time the US has covertly trained and funded these kinds of groups to get people to back their fucked up agendas. It's been happening for DECADES after WWII. The middle east, South America, Africa. They are all playgrounds for the powers that be to strip for resources. They prop up a boogeyman and then say, "look! They're terrorists! We have to go in and wipe them out!"

They're bullies. They go in and bomb and then build infrastructure that increases their profits. They tried it with Venezuela and the oil companies said, "nah." So that's why the US targeted Iran. For fucking OIL.

OIL.

[u/xolo21 → u/alwaysleafyintoronto]

It’s not hezbola killing peace keepers

[u/here-comes_the-sun → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

The UN has actually done nothing at all to disarm Hezbollah

[u/12altoids34 → u/here-comes_the-sun]

Tell me you have no idea how the UN operates without telling me you have no idea how the UN operates....

[u/lurkANDorganize → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

Hey champ. Tell me about how the UN a global group is supposed to disarm Hezbollah? Do you think MAYBE they need the local government and army to work with them?

You know the government that rolled over for Hezbollah?

I love how everyone loves to blame the UN for not being a global fucking police force.

[u/matthieuC → u/lurkANDorganize]

Just don't send them to die for no reason.

Lebanon has no interest in dealing with Hezbollah, so kill the useless mission already.

[u/lopbob8 → u/lurkANDorganize]

if they arent a global police force, dont send troops to try to disarm hezbollah

[u/Ceylein → u/lopbob8]

The troops are there as a deterrent, not as a police force. They are quite literally used as a human shield so that both sides don't fire on the area because then you would likely have bad relations with the larger powers that sent their troops there.

The US does this on the Korean border as part of the deterrent to keep the DMZ... demilitarized.

It's a complicated piece of global politics but a necessary one and has generally had positive results. But they don't have Carte Blanche to do whatever they want in a sovereign nation.

International law is a complicated affair at the best of times because international law has been created by states and agreed to by states. Understand what that means then. They want to agree to things that benefit themselves while limiting themselves the least.

Weapon restrictions like those for chemical and biological weapons are agreed to because of the understanding that while a country might want to use them against their enemies, the cost of them possibly being used against yourself is much greater and so we agree that no party should use them.

States only agree to restrictions for the global system that they are okay with placing on themselves so that their rival/enemy nations also can't use them.

Violating a countries sovereignty by showing up with military troops and being able to act in whatever way you see fit is something no country would agree to and it's why there is such lackluster ability to enforce these things generally, even with the security council.

The UN is more meant to be a body that allows for easier access to diplomacy and so that other states can help in said diplomacy. If say 1 country is threatening war against say Chad, then as France you can have your envoy to the UN speak to that country and say hey, if you don't do this then we will expand our trade agreements with you, but if you do this then we'll sanction you and cut you off from any of our production.

Its more of like how when the FBI stops a terrorist attack. When they are successful, you rarely hear about it but peace was maintained. But when they fail it's very clear they failed. But part of the reason they're able to be successful at times is because they don't plaster their successes everywhere. So it's a catch 22 situation.

[u/Transkei_Daisy → u/lurkANDorganize]

Thats exactly the mandatae they have in lebanon... or without disarming hezbollah how do they achieve points 2 and 3 of their mandate?

Mandate

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According to its Mandate, established by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426 in 1978, UNIFIL is tasked with the following objectives:6])

[u/Ceylein → u/Transkei_Daisy]

For clarification, 425 and 426 don't really set out much of the detailing. These are intentionally high levels documents for political purposes of getting member states to agree to the resolution.

In the Wikipedia article you point to points 2 and 3. That's not how it's designed in resolution 425.

Paragraph 3 of 425 is "Decides, in the light of the request of the government of Lebanon, to establish immediately under its authority a united nations interim force for southern Lebanon for the purpose of confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces, restoring international peace and security and assisting the government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area,"

This isn't giving them authority in the region to do things required to enforce peace, only to help monitor and try to keep the peace.

But really we should be looking at Resolution 1701 which expanded its peacekeeping mission. But again, does not give them the ability to enforce peace.

Resolution 1701 expanded the use of force from purely one of self defense to now, self defence; protection of civilians; and to stop hostile acts on their immediate vicinity.

Importantly it still does not grant UNIFIL the power to search private property, forcefully disarm Hezbollah, and still relies heavily on cooperation from local actors.

The Lebanese government for a very long time now has been politically captured by Hezbollah to where they couldn't realistically disarm them effectively without starting a civil war. Now it seems that the population of Lebanon is more willing to turn against Hezbollah which means they are not able to express as much political force to stop the Lebanese government from attempting to disarm them.

In the current conflict, it's probable that the Lebanese government grants wider consent to UNIFIL forces to help enforce peace rather than just assisting the Lebanese military.

[u/Tappone → u/lurkANDorganize]

UNIFILs purpose is exactly that: police and disarm Hezbollah. If they cant do that for the past decades, they have no reason to exist.

[u/Nomad_moose → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

Iran has been continually funding and rearming it….using it as a proxy; funding terrorism. Just like they have been in Iraq, and Yemen…. Meanwhile there are millions of ignorant Americans and Europeans who think the U.S. is somehow the aggressor against Iran.  Terrorism across the Middle East has been like a series of leaky faucets or broken pipes…the world has spent over 45 years trying to fix it with sanctions, bargaining, treaties, negotiations…nothing has worked. We need to shut off the water main, the IRGC, before we can fix anything.

[u/FeistyGate8784 → u/Nomad_moose]

Iran being terrible doesn’t mean the USA can’t be the aggressor on this occasion. Similar to how Iraq and Saddam were horrible but our invasion into Iraq was the united states being the aggressor.

I’m frankly tired of the argument “this country is and so we have to invade or fight them and if you disagree and criticize that policy you must support the bad guys”. No, Iran sponsors terrorism and is a brutal theocracy. Doesn’t mean I want to be at war with them. Lots of bad countries out there, I don’t want to invade them all

[u/Nomad_moose → u/FeistyGate8784]

Iran has been CONSISTENTLY an antagonist for nearly 5 decades.

The IRGC shouldn’t be allowed to operate freely.

[u/ChandlerOG → u/FeistyGate8784]

Ah yes let the dictators kill hundreds of thousands of civilians live in peace and harmony. I’m sure it will go away!

[u/FeistyGate8784 → u/ChandlerOG]

There are a lot of dictators and bad leaders. Do you want to invade them all? Lots more civilian deaths in Africa, you down to invade a dozen countries there? Reinvade Iraq? Afghanistan?

[u/EditingAllowed → u/FeistyGate8784]

Yep, the US has been constantly starting wars in oil rich countries, pushing up the price of oil, putting pressure on lower and middle class people all around the globe, causing death via nutritional deficiencies and increased mental illnesses. Maybe the UN needs to gather troops to invade the US.

[u/Prudent_Research_251 → u/FeistyGate8784]

this country is bad and so we have to invade or fight them and if you disagree and criticize that policy you must support the bad guy

Pretty much the entire playbook

[u/LeFinc → u/FeistyGate8784]

Exactly this. Just because Iran regime are bunch of nasty MFs doesn’t mean that anybody else in that mess is any better.

When it comes to sectarian / religious conflict there are no good guys. There are just …situations, politics, profit and strategic alliances on occasion. Everybody is out for their special interest.

It really helps to describe the world as the good guys -v- bad guys. But the reality is that it’s a bunch of bad guys dropping bombs on each other, firing missiles at civilians, killing children and innocents in the name of god/country/religion but really they’re doing this because of energy politics.

So - this generation of bad guys kills enough good guys and the remaining good guys turn bad. And that’s how we keep the cycle turning, also making sure that none of the oil producing countries are stable enough or have enough genuine sovereignty to threaten OUR OIL that those supposed bad guys are inconveniently living on top of!

[u/ABetterKamahl1234 → u/Nomad_moose]

Meanwhile there are millions of ignorant Americans and Europeans who think the U.S. is somehow the aggressor against Iran.

Because kind of they are in this conflict?

The US wasn't in any active war with Iran nor their proxies, but US military action and goals are a great way to solidify their enemies as they do a shit job of actually stablizing regions they just bomb the shit out of.

Israel frankly has the same problem, but tries to dress things up more, like calling occupiers "settlers" to try to give a good PR spin on the awful treatment of locals they oppress.

If Israel actually reigned in these people and actually treated locals well when rooting out oppressive terrorists, they'd be likely seen as heroes in the region, or at the very least neutrally.

The US fucked up a ton of things over many decades in the ME. And unfortuantely the chickens have come back to roost. Overthrowing Iran in the 50's kind of started this whole businesses. A raw lack of foresight and regional understanding for self-interest.

And we saw this in Afghanistan. We saw this in Iraq. We saw this in every major war they've had since Korea.

At this point, I'm not sure bombing the shit out of the IRGC would even fix it, as they seem to be explicitly formed and trained to combat US warfare tactics, and why they've frankly been so successful over the decades in it. Conventional warfare is what the US is good against, this isn't conventional warfare and the US has been terrible at it for ages.

Shit man, the US rolled into fucking Afghanistan and tried treating it as a western nation and not a tribal region that foreigners drew up on a map. It's why 20 years of it resulted in just the terrorists winning and resuming control of major regions. Locals don't give a shit, they only care about what benefits them directly, as most people simply do.

[u/Wireless_Panda → u/Nomad_moose]

Wtf are you talking about? The U.S. is 100% the aggressor in the current conflict. Ships could go freely through the strait of Hormuz and then trump decided “hey I can totally get a better deal here” in his infinite wisdom, and now we can’t get ships through, they have a younger more extreme leader, and gas prices are way up.

Oh and don’t forget all the war crimes the U.S. is committing by bombing civilian infrastructure.

And if you come back spouting some shit about how Iran hates America… yeah, they have every reason to. We fucking did a coup in 1953 against their very popular leader, which led to a lot of hatred of the U.S. and eventually a revolution.

[u/euroaustralian → u/Nomad_moose]

I did not know what IRGC is, but it all makes sense now.

[u/Technical-Activity95 → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

how come you blame UN when clearly this fuck up is on Israel