And because any fundamental change in tasks, as desired by the Israeli enemy and the United States, needs a missing consensus due to the Russian and Chinese positions, and the absence of a European decision to confront and risk bearing the cost of any hostile steps once morest the resistance, attempts to use the reality in the south continue in an international campaign of incitement to the resistance, in order to demonize it. And employing the mission of UNIFIL to the maximum extent possible in the Israeli-American battle, but without risking the mission of the force as a whole.
It was remarkable what was stated in the decision to renew the force for a period of one year, which was presented by France, and issued by the UN Security Council under the number 2650, highlighting and at length on the issue of “freedom of movement” for international forces along the entire “Blue Line”, and on the lack of obligation to accompany them by the Lebanese army. . The text of paragraph 16 of the resolution, at the outset of its defense of the “independence” of the work of UNIFIL, recalls the incidents of clash with the southerners that occurred this year and in previous years, following the introduction of the resolution had passed over them, calling for the completion of investigations and a reference to and punishment of the perpetrators, as well as a reminder of armed attacks The military court issued decisions once morest UNIFIL, as stated in the investigations of the security services, with the involvement of groups with a takfiri dimension.
It is no secret that UNIFIL’s tasks are more than 450 daily work tasks in the southern Litani area, with the army participating in less than 20% of them, to carry out routine routine tasks independently, but with coordination of the movement with the forces of the southern Litani sector in the army. Therefore, the clashes in the southern villages between the residents and the patrols, in the past years, are numbered on the fingers of the hand, and very few compared to the number of tasks that are going through complete calm, which confirms the resistance’s keenness, before others, to stability in the south, and the absence of any hostile intentions from the The people or the popular mood towards the international force.
Nevertheless, the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, which was issued in the middle of last month, and the Security Council resolution take a fierce propaganda dimension directed once morest the activity of the resistance, politically and on the ground, and clearly tolerate the enemy and its violations and behaviors.
The report mentions, for example, the allegation that there were 95 cases of unauthorized carrying of weapons south of the Litani during the last months, the report summary period, in reference to the violation of Resolution 1701 by the Lebanese side 95 times. In details, the report indicates that ninety of these cases are related to carrying a hunting weapon, and five cases of carrying military weapons have not even been confirmed! One of these cases is in the town of Shamaa, where a man with a pistol on his waist is indicated, without clarifying his identity and whether he is a security, military or civilian member who holds a license to carry a military weapon.
As for the most serious incident, which was kept secret at the time of its occurrence, it was what the enemy navy did once morest a ship belonging to the international force, and Guterres only mentioned this in his report as a violation of the international resolution, and with the same importance as the incidents of carrying a fishing weapon!
On the 6th and 7th of last June, the enemy navy surrounded an Indonesian ship belonging to the International Force, with six warplanes and a battleship Sa’ar 4.5, on the first day. Then, the next day, the operation of the blockade and radar occlusion of the same air and sea weapons group was repeated, making the ship a ready target, so that any technical error almost turned the accident into a disaster for UNIFIL, the United Nations and the Indonesian soldiers.
Despite the incident, no “strongly worded” statement was issued by UNIFIL, nor did the international powers demand that Israel be held accountable for its aggression towards the international soldiers. Rather, the resurrection of the Deputy Director of UNIFIL’s Media Office Candice Ardel did not, as it does recently with any incident between the force and the people in escalatory situations. contribute to increased stress.
Perhaps more dangerous than that, is the silence of UNIFIL, and the Lebanese government and its agencies, regarding the major ground breach that the enemy has committed for weeks recently, in the occupied town of Ghajar, where it built a wall along the village, technical fences and barbed wires on occupied Lebanese lands with the recognition of the United Nations, and not disputed,” as well as establishing a defense infrastructure in the region. The Guterres report did not pay much attention to the breach, but it quoted the report of his Special Representative in Lebanon that “Acts of engineering change are unacceptable in an occupied territory, and constitute a breach of 1701.”
So far, UNIFIL has not moved towards any practical measures to address this breach, just as the silence regarding the ongoing breach in the Ras Al-Naqoura area and in the railway tunnel controlled by the Israeli enemy and used by its forces in a flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and Resolution 1701. The national humiliation also continues, in the government’s silence And UNIFIL, for preventing the army, security services and customs from approaching less than 150 meters from this vital area that the enemy is holding on to due to its strategic field importance in the military and political aspects, and in affecting the maritime borders.
While he did not lose sight of the report and the international resolution, the reminder of the tunnels that UNIFIL and the enemy attribute to the resistance on the border with occupied Palestine, and allowing UNIFIL to enter them!
Hence, the campaign in New York appears to be propaganda this year, and its goal is to demonize and establish a clash between the international force and the resistance, or to push the Lebanese army to play this role, by emphasizing the need to raise the number of its forces in the south and complete the formation of the so-called Model Regiment, to carry out the tasks of verification and control in The south, taking advantage of the army’s difficult physical reality and investing in the monthly support operation with fuel, fuel and medicine for the forces of the Litani South Command, which relies heavily on international support.
Through this propaganda, it aims at what annoys the Israeli enemy, which fought the 2006 battle under the title of removing the resistance from the borders and striking its missile force, then soon appeared at a zero distance in areas and spots considered by the enemy as starting points and control points on the borders, or what is being done Finally, talking regarding four shooting fields in the south of the Litani, UNIFIL says that it uncovered them by aerial reconnaissance.
In recent months, and once morest the backdrop of tension over the maritime borders, the enemy army fears a series of military measures taken by the resistance in the south, at the sea, land and air levels, and the enemy and UNIFIL mention 15 “containers” along the border, in spots that UNIFIL needs permission to enter as territories especially.
The pressure on the international force and the United Nations comes to push UNIFIL to move towards these facilities, or at least put the blue hats in the face of the resistance and hold it responsible for violating the international resolution in the media, as it benefits from some of its battalions and personnel in the field and intelligence, with a future discussion on “Transferring the tasks of the force from under Chapter VI to under Chapter VII.”
The campaign is not satisfied with targeting the resistance directly, but also in silencing the voices that criticize and reveal the other side of the picture and what is hidden by propaganda that exonerates Israel and criminalizes the resistance. The paragraphs of the report and the resolution celebrate the freedom of UNIFIL in the face of the so-called “false information, fabricated information, and incitement once morest UNIFIL,” without sufficient details to clarify what can be considered criticism and freedom of expression and the press, and what can be referred to as incitement, and the methods of the international forces in confronting it!
The spokesperson for the international forces, Andrea Tenenti, praises the decision to renew the force and the importance of its role in the south as a peacekeeping force and to ensure the implementation of 1701. Tenenti rejects the comparison between violations of the international resolution, regardless of their size, in reference to the incident of the Indonesian ship and the incidents of carrying fishing weapons and the reaction of UNIFIL. For him, they are all “recorded and impressive violations”! It reaffirms UNIFIL’s right to freedom of movement and access to all points on the Blue Line and in the area south of the Litani. The official spokesman points out that what was stated in the international resolution 2650, as a matter of course, and that UNIFIL is coordinating with the army.
