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| November 1, 2016
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UN accepts Israel’s invitation for peacekeeping forces to be trained in field medicine by IDF

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said, “We are very proud to invite U.N. peacekeeping forces to Israel…We hope U.N. personnel will be able to implement our methods and save lives worldwide.”

By Shlomo Cesana

 

United Nations peacekeeping forces are scheduled to participate in a special emergency field medicine seminar headed by the Israeli military and local medical professionals, Israel Hayom learned Sunday.

IDF and U.N. troops on the northern border [Illustrative] | Photo credit: Eyal Margolin / JINI

IDF and U.N. troops on the northern border [Illustrative] – Photo: Eyal Margolin/JINI

The seminar, to be held in the next few weeks, aims to address one of the fundamental challenges U.N. peacekeeping forces face in their assignments in conflict zones worldwide: saving lives on the battlefield. Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2012
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Widow of Canadian (UN) soldier killed by IDF says Harper’s gov’t protecting Israel

Hezbollah was using UN post as a ‘shield’

“This has not been deliberate targeting, but rather due to tactical necessity.”

December 26, 2012

By JTA

The widow of a Canadian soldier killed by Israeli forces says the country’s Defense Department removed a report of his killing from its website in an effort to shield Israel.

Aftermath of IDF airstrike on UN patrol base Khiam, Lebanon, 2006 – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia commons

Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were killed in 2006 when Israel’s military shelled their outpost in southern Lebanon during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

Hess-von Kruedener’s widow, Cynthia, says that the report was removed because of reluctance on the part of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to criticize Israel, the Ottawa Citizen reported. Continue Reading »

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