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Chapter 1: What does it mean to be a peacekeeper?
Right, yeah. Was that when the IDF came in and their Merkava tanks and the French physically blocked them with their own tanks? I can't remember when that was.
And I'm not aware of that, but it will happen because I know certainly back in the 90s... That may have been when it was. When Israel was operating the security zone, we, the Irish, and our colleagues from Finland and Norway had numerous standoffs with Israelis trying to enter certain villages and... Yeah.
But yeah, I saw the day before yesterday, I think two bulldozers in the Merkava, or I said, yeah, two D9s broke down a UN watchtower and a UN fence at the UN UNIFIL headquarters in Nakura, which is a few K from the frontier with Israel. I should point out as well for your listeners that Israel and Lebanon have been at a state of war since 1948. Yes.
They've never had a ceasefire or a peace agreement.
And the tripartite agreement is the only place where they actually meet, right?
Yeah, so there is a UNIFIL host, a meeting, normally right at the frontier where you can cross between one country and the other. And I keep using the word frontier because it's not a border. It hasn't been officially demarcated. The blue line, which I mentioned earlier on, simply verifies that the IDF have withdrawn into Israel, but it's not the border. Right.
However, going back to your point about the tripartite agreement, and that's where the senior Israeli officials, senior Lebanese officials, under the chairmanship of UNIFIL meet, and they discuss items of concern that maybe UNIFIL can help iron out between the two of them. Right. And in 2022, they managed to organize a maritime boundary.
between Lebanon and Israel, which was kind of fascinating because On the western side of Lebanon and the northwestern coast of Israel, there's huge gas fields. So the two countries actually, they've agreed their maritime boundary under the auspices of UNIFIL.
They still haven't agreed their land, but it's the first time that a peacekeeping mission has arranged, encouraged, developed and led successfully discussions about a maritime boundary. So UNIFIL does have some successes.
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Chapter 2: How did Irish soldiers end up in Lebanon?
Yeah. So that's sort of where they find themselves now, right? Can you explain, like, you've got these positions along the frontier, and then you've got the headquarters that you just mentioned two days ago have been, I don't know, infringed by a bulldozer, attacked, depends how you want to say it.
Well, it makes a change from having a tanker on fired into an OP, which they did a few days previously.
Yeah, and they've done consistently for a month or so now, firing directly into these observing positions. Are these positions that are now, are they left isolated? Because the IDF will advance past and around them, in addition to firing directly at them.
They're somewhat isolated. Now, all these positions would be well-stocked with water and emergency rations and stuff like that. And as I mentioned before, Unifil do have a liaison branch, which I'm sure are talking to the IDF on an hourly basis. And they will coordinate everything the movements of UNIFIL would say to supply their positions.
Or I think last week they had a convoy went into the city of Tyre, which is probably 12k from the headquarters to distribute aid, especially medical aid. Because Tyre is getting fairly whacked, like all of the south, I suppose. So there is engagement to make sure that these posts aren't completely isolated, that there is a means of doing resupply
Yeah. Israel stopped one of those at some point, didn't it? Like, was it a resupply movement?
They stopped things on a regular basis. As I said, there is interaction. Like, nothing happens in a vacuum. Like we said, the Irish battalion headquarters would not send a convoy to 6-5-2 without it being communicated to the Israelis and saying, we're going to go in three vehicles at 700 hours, blah, blah, blah. and get the confirmation back that, yeah, that's okay.
Because, you know, the mention to follow the war, that's often fairly real, as you can imagine yourself. It's a fairly real thing that happens. You know, sometimes, you know, instructions don't get passed down or sometimes instructions are ignored for whatever reason. So it's a bit of a delicate, delicate balancing act. But from what I understand, it's working well. That's good.
Yeah, yeah. And I think it's working well in terms of like, what's happening in Lebanon is bad. And it'd be better if it wasn't. But it's not at the same tier as it has been in Gaza.
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Chapter 3: What challenges do UN peacekeepers face in Lebanon?
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Chapter 4: What is the role of UNIFIL in the Israel-Lebanon conflict?
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