This has been mentioned in other threads as well; basically the UN outpost, which Israel was aware of, had been shelled 14 times, then bombed, and then the rescue team in turn was shelled; anyway here is an update with more info that wasn't posted in the other threads:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/5217176.stm
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UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.
The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.
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The four unarmed UN observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, died after their UN post in the town of Khiam was hit by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.
The UN report says each time the UN contacted Israeli forces, they were assured the firing would stop.
A senior Irish soldier working for the UN forces had warned the Israelis six times that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff, Ireland's foreign ministry said.
Had Israel responded to the requests, "rather than deliberately ignoring them", the observers would still be alive, a diplomat familiar with the report said.
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None of the actions undertaken at this point convince me to give them the benefit of the doubt on this; in fact, it is because of their actions throughout what was little more than a border skirmish before they immediately escalated it into a full scale war, that's displaced 800,000 Lebanese civillians so far and killed 400 more, that I do not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Two of their soldiers are kidnapped, and for that 8 Canadians - 7 of them civilians, none of them armed or part of Hezbollah - have been killed by the IDF.