‘Israel’ Demands More Access For UNIFIL Members in Lebanon

By Staff, Agencies

The Zionist Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danoon Thursday demanded that UNIFIL peacekeepers reform the way it operates in Lebanon by having more access to sensitive sites and freedom of movement.

The new measures is US-backed, according to The Times of ‘Israel’.

Danon made the demands during a video press briefing, claiming that the UN Security Council must be immediately informed if Lebanon moves to block any of the new measures.

“We have seen that slowly there [are fewer] places that the troops in the peacekeeping operation can actually travel in southern Lebanon,” Danon said. “So we want them to have full freedom of movement.”

“I have discussed it with the commander of the force and we tell them: You are there, you cannot move and you can’t inspect, so why you are there? You have to be more active, you have to move freely and you have to inspect all sites.”

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was originally created to oversee the Zionist occupation’s withdrawal from the territory following an invasion in 1978.

The UN mission was expanded in 2002 after resistance from Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah against the ‘Israeli’ breaches of the country’s sovereignty, leading to peacekeepers being deployed on the ‘Israeli’-occupied Palestine-Lebanon border.