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  • In 2006, during the last major confrontation, a UN Observation Position (OP) came under Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment.

    Despite repeated appeals to the IDF to stop firing, throughout 25 July, the OP on the outskirts of the village of Khiam was finally destroyed.

    Four UN military observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland were killed.

    Israel’s ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, said “Unifil obviously got caught in the middle", and suggested that the deadly fire could have come from Hezbollah.

    A UN investigation concluded that the base had been destroyed by a 500kg precision-guided bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane.

    Israel concluded that human error was to blame.

    In 1996, during an earlier round of fighting, Israeli artillery shells hit another UN compound, at Qana, where around 800 displaced Lebanese civilians were sheltering.

    106 civilians were killed and four Fijian peacekeepers were injured.