UN Peace Keepers…..
Polio vaccination efforts….
Gaza medical evacuations….
More Israeli Hamas attcks in Gaza….
No ‘Peace/Hostage’ talks reports…..
There ARE UN Peace Keeping Troops in Lebanon…..
The peacekeepers passed scorched fields and bombed houses and hollowed-out towns, the landscape of southern Lebanon’s stop-and-start war.
On the road, in white armored vehicles waving the blue flag of the United Nations, they encountered people who could not leave the conflict zone, who refused to go or were paid to stay: Lebanese soldiers, Syrian farmhands, a cafe owner thrilled to see them and other residents who barely seemed to notice them.
For years, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, monitored a cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel that had more or less held since 2006. But since October, fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across the Blue Line, the unofficial demarcation between Lebanon and Israel, has been pretty much continuous — and threatened, at times, to tip into all-out war.
There are moments, Spanish Lt. Col. José Irisarri said, when “it’s calm. Then boom: two days of nonstop fighting.” Irisarri, a member of the Spanish contingent for UNIFIL, escorted Washington Post reporters on a recent patrol during a few morning hours when the war seemed to ebb…
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The force, which was established in 1978 to monitor Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon after its invasion, works in the current conflict to de-escalate tensions by passing messages between the Lebanese and Israeli militaries. A more formal mediation mechanism, which brought Israeli and Lebanese military officials into the same room with UNIFIL, has been suspended since October. Though Hezbollah did not participate, its interests were represented by the Lebanese army.
UNIFIL officials concede that if all-out war erupted, they could dolittle to stop it….
The first round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza was completed Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of children received dosages, successfully reaching 90% vaccination coverage, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
“Our next challenge will be providing the second dose, needed in the coming weeks,” the UNRWA said.
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The World Health Organization said it had evacuated at least 97 patients and 155 companions from Gaza on Wednesday, taking them to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment.
This was the largest medical evacuation from Gaza since October 2023, according to Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory.
Patients were transported in ambulances via the Kerem Shalom crossing from Gaza to Ramon Airport in Israel for travel to Abu Dhabi.
Patients included 45 children and 52 adults with a wide range of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, congenital anomalies, blood and liver diseases, trauma and injuries.
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- Israeli forces arrested 23 Palestinians trying to return to their workplaces in Israel at a checkpoint near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
- Israel’s Channel 13, citing an unnamed senior official, reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to launch a major attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon soon.
- Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence, says that at least 26 people have been killed today.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has offered condolences to the family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the US-Turkish activist killed by Israeli forces during a protest in the occupied West Bank.
- The United Arab Emirates says it will not support Israel in its “day-after” plan in Gaza unless a Palestinian state is established….
Sep 14, 2024 – ISW Press
The IDF Air Force struck two buildings in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, on September 14 where Hamas fighters were operating. The IDF reported that fighters used the buildings to conduct operations and produce weapons.[2] The buildings were located near the Dar al Arqam school currently being used as a shelter for displaced Gazans.