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Four U.N. Peacekeepers killed in Lebanon despite calls to Israeli troops
An Israeli precision-guided missile struck a U.N. post in Southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing four U.N. peacekeepers from the group known as UNIFIL. The peacekeepers from Austria, Canada, China, and Finland were at an observation post in the southern region.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has expressed his deepest sympathies towards the attacks and has rebuked the claims by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that the attack was "apparently deliberate". However, the BBC has reported that the peacekeepers had contacted the Israeli military ten times to request that the bombings in their area seize after enduring six hours of shelling before the post was hit, according to a U.N. report. The report says that each time the unarmed peacekeepers contacted the Israeli military that they were assured the firing would stop.
You can read the BBC report here.
