The UN is not there with ROE that stipulate they can 'shut it down'. (I am aware of the approximately 1100 UN Observer force that's there. TY.)

"There would have been no ambiguity about whether the Israelis had targeted the UN had Mr. Annan, in accordance with deployment tradition, withdrawn the observers from the area as soon as ceasefire violations erupted into open warfare.

Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie describes the decision to leave the observers on site as "bizarre" from a military point of view.

"If I were their commander and I was ordered to leave them there, I'd disobey the order and they could send me home," he said.

Indeed, in what is the equivalent of a voice from the grave, an e-mail written by Maj. Hess-von Kruedener days before the strike says Hezbollah was active in the area of the observer post and that Israeli strikes close to it had "not been deliberate targeting."

The firing was "due to tactical necessity," he wrote, which Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie said was military jargon for "I've got Hezbollah all over my position using us as shields."

Hiding behind targets the Israelis are reluctant to strike is a common Hezbollah tactic, and Jan Egeland, the UN's emergency relief co-ordinator, this week called the guerrilla fighters "cowards" for putting Lebanese civilians at risk by hiding among them.

Yet Mr. Annan ignored Maj. Hess-von Kruedener's reports of the increasing risks to the base as Hezbollah used it as a shield."


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un, lebanon

Then this comes up

2 Indian UN peacekeepers wounded in southern Lebanon
CBC Montreal, Canada - 4 hours ago
... Earlier this week, an Israeli bomb destroyed a UN observer post in south Lebanon, killing at least three observers. Another observer ...
Harper doubts UN post deliberately targeted CBC.ca
UN post should have been cleared National Post
Probe bombing of UN observer post Toronto Star
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The article title is 'UN posts should have been cleared National Post