UN to condemn Israel for interfering with a peace keeping force.
Via JPost
Irish UN troops “almost certainly” would have been killed or taken hostage during fighting last week if it were not for Israeli soldiers saving them, senior sources told the Irish Independent on Sunday.
The crisis would likely have been similar to the ongoing hostage situation with Filipino and Fijian UN troops in the buffer zone along the Syrian border. The Philippines’ soldiers managed to escape into safety in Israel, while the 44 soldiers from Fiji still remain in captivity.
The senior sources said Israeli soldiers, who have guard posts overlooking the UN demilitarization zone in Quneitra, provided “decisive” help to the Irish UN soldiers in the area.
The IDF soldiers helped guide UN rescue troops away from al-Nusra forces in the area.
On August 28, terrorists from the al-Nusra front, the Syrian wing of al-Qaida, captured 72 UN troops from the Philippines and 44 UN troops from Fiji. The Filipino troops managed to escape into safety in Israel.
Al-Nusra is threatening to put the Fijian soldiers on trial under Islamic Shari’a law unless a series of demands are met, including the group’s removal from the UN’s list of global terror organizations, and monetary compensation for members killed in fighting.