In between Hezbollah terrorists and Israel's army, there is a United Nation's peacekeeping force. They've been there for 46 years, and they're here to protect us. But what are they up to now? And why are they doing it?
00:06:47.320Some might say, what exactly have they accomplished?
00:06:51.160Except pump billions of tax dollars from other countries into the economy in Lebanon.
00:06:57.600Make money for the third world countries that typically staff UNIFIL.
00:07:01.400Did you know that the UN actually pays countries to send peacekeepers in?
00:07:05.580It's a good way for poor countries like Sri Lanka to make some cash.
00:07:09.960And I'm not sure if you know this, but UN peacekeepers are routinely accused with credibility of raping local children.
00:07:18.700I'm sorry to say it so bluntly, but here's just one of a gazillion stories of a major child prostitution ring set up by UN peacekeepers in Haiti.
00:08:28.360Sometimes they act as sex predators, as I mentioned in the Haiti case.
00:08:32.560I'm not sure what the point of peacekeepers is, especially if there is no peace to keep.
00:08:36.880But if they've been in Lebanon for 46 years, somebody must be benefiting from them.
00:08:43.600So as you know, Israel was attacked in a shocking terrorist invasion last October 7th from Gaza on the south of the country.
00:08:52.000The terrorist group that did that is called Hamas, and it's also backed by Iran.
00:08:56.100And then Hezbollah in Lebanon opened up another front against Israel in support of Hamas.
00:09:02.680So they just started sending rockets in from the north, and 80,000 Israelis have been evacuated from northern Israel for a full year because of this.
00:09:12.340So Israel has finally moved against Hezbollah, first through their incredible Hollywood-style targeted attack
00:09:21.900at more than 2,000 senior terrorists by blowing up their pagers.
00:09:47.720And now Israel is going in on the ground to root out the terrorist attack bases and tunnels along the border.
00:09:55.260Really just what they were doing in the 1970s.
00:09:58.240It was a preemptive attack as Hezbollah had over 100,000 rockets aimed at Israel and was planning a similar terrorist invasion to the one Hamas had done on October 7th.
00:10:13.060And it was brilliant how they did it, all of which is to say the UN did nothing to stop the terrorist attack from Hezbollah against Israel for a solid year.
00:11:40.680Dancing in the streets in parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran when Hezbollah was knocked down a notch.
00:11:46.100But this time, UNIFIL has refused to move out of the way as Israel comes into southern Lebanon to root out the Hezbollah terrorists.
00:11:56.480It couldn't be clearer. The UN is deliberately trying to block Israel from defending itself.
00:12:03.140And worse, I think, in some twisted way, they might actually want Israel to hit a UN peacekeeper just to get bad press for it or to call it a war crime.
00:12:13.340Like, it's almost like they're volunteering to be human shields for Hezbollah.
00:12:16.920Here's Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:12:19.940The charge that Israel deliberately attacked UNIFIL personnel is completely false.
00:12:50.920It's not fighting the people of Lebanon.
00:12:52.360It is fighting Iran's proxy Hezbollah, which uses Lebanese territory to attack Israel.
00:12:58.900Hezbollah attacked Israel last year without any provocation on October 8th, a day after the Hamas massacre.
00:13:04.640And it's continued to attack us ever since by launching over 10,000 rockets and missiles in Israel.
00:13:11.140Hezbollah uses UNIFIL facilities and positions as cover while it attacks Israeli cities and communities.
00:13:17.320These attacks have claimed the lives of many Israelis, including yesterday.
00:13:22.100Israel has every right to defend itself against Hezbollah and will continue to do so.
00:13:27.140We regret any harm done to UNIFIL personnel, and the IDF is doing its utmost to prevent such incidents.
00:13:32.820But the best way to ensure the safety of UNIFIL personnel is for UNIFIL to heed Israel's requests and to temporarily get out of harm's way.
00:13:44.760Well, no, says the best friends the terrorists have, namely the UN.
00:13:50.220Now, as you know, the decision was made that UNIFIL would currently stay in all its position in spite of the calls that were made by the Israeli Defense Forces to vacate the position that are in the vicinity of the blue line.
00:14:07.940I want to emphasize that this decision still remains.
00:14:14.100It was confirmed this morning by the Secretary General.
00:14:16.480We had an Executive Committee meeting on that specific issue.
00:14:21.200And I want also to emphasize that this was a decision that was very carefully considered based on a number of elements and criteria.
00:14:28.940Of course, safety and security of the peacekeepers is a paramount priority.
00:14:32.940But there are a number of other elements, and one of them is the responsibility that we have and UNIFIL has in regard to the mandate that was given to it by the Security Council.
00:14:45.540It's a Security Council mandated operation, and we all feel duty-bound to fulfill to the best of our ability the mandate given by the Security Council.
00:14:54.860We are staying. It's important that there was a decision taken because we are in the south of Lebanon under a Security Council mandate.
00:15:04.660So it's important to keep an international presence and to keep the UN flag in the area.
00:15:11.920There have been some deliberate attacks against our troops, and peacekeepers were injured.
00:15:17.280So this is not only a violation of Resolution 1701, it's also a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
00:15:26.500And the parties have the obligation to protect peacekeepers and ensure the safety and security of our troops.
00:15:34.060What is needed now is a political and diplomatic solution to this conflict.
00:15:38.620It's important for member states, for main stakeholders, to step in and find viable solutions to this conflict.
00:15:47.540The military solutions that we're seeing right now is not the solution.
00:15:52.420The only solution is the political and diplomatic.
00:15:55.380More than 350,000 people left the south of Lebanon, but some people cannot leave because they don't have a place to go.
00:16:03.520People want to stay in their villages, and what's relevant right now is to ensure that they are provided with the most basic needs.
00:16:12.820The problem right now is that we have been trying to de-conflict these activities and provide assistance together, of course, in coordination with UN agencies, Red Cross.
00:16:25.760But most of the times, these activities could not take place because of the heavy shelling, but also because we were not getting reassurances from the parties that we could actually move to all these locations.
00:16:42.100So very concerning, and it's important for everyone to understand that we need to protect civilians, and we need to provide assistance to the people left in South Lebanon.
00:16:53.140But like I say, what has the UN done in the past 46 years?
00:16:56.960Well, here's a BBC reporter on the ground right now giving his reports.
00:17:04.480We are now in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli military is showing to foreign journalists exactly what they've found since they invaded a couple of weeks ago.
00:17:14.680And it is everything from weapons depots to tunnels, which is what we're seeing right here.
00:17:25.400This tunnel was used as an observation post, but there are dozens of these just in this area where the IDF is currently operating.
00:17:32.500And what they're also telling us is that it is probably a hundred meter from the UN compound that you see over here.
00:17:42.640According to the Israeli military, they have a hard time believing that they had no idea that Hezbollah was digging 20 meter deep tunnels just 100 meter from them.
00:17:53.860Something that might have taken years.
00:17:57.040And these tunnels are also used to fire anti-tank missiles at villages just across the border.
00:18:03.460They hide in these tunnels, use them as infrastructure, and then they attack Israeli sites.
00:18:09.860Don't tell me that the UN didn't see every single day Hezbollah terrorists.
00:18:15.440That's an observation point, and the terrorists were just a few hundred feet away.
00:18:19.460Here's another video showing the same thing from a different angle.
00:18:23.860The Israeli army has discovered countless underground tunnels, ammunition depots, bunkers along the border, really like it was in Gaza.
00:18:42.240It was going to be a staging ground for a massive war, a terrorist war, a ground assault.
00:18:47.140The only reason it wasn't launched is because Israel moved first in the way I described above.
00:18:51.520But it all happened under the nose of the UN.