29-03-2024 02:05 PM Jerusalem Timing

Israelis Targeted UN Peacekeepers in Quneitra Attack: Spanish Report

Israelis Targeted UN Peacekeepers in Quneitra Attack: Spanish Report

A confidential Spanish military report on the death of a Spanish UN peacekeeper in Israeli shelling in Lebanon said he was manning a post that appeared to have been targeted

A confidential Spanish military report on the death of a Spanish UN peacekeeper in Israeli shelling in Lebanon said he was manning a post that appeared to have been targeted, a  newspaper reported Sunday.
  
spanish soldierEl Pais cited extracts from the report which drew on testimony from soldiers following the January 28 incident when the Israeli military shelled border areas following a Hezbollah attack that left two Zionist soldiers dead.
  
Corporal Ivan Lopez Sanchez, who was stationed nearby, told investigators that the UN position was clearly targeted. "Every time, they corrected the trajectory from Majidiye to the 4-28" post, where the UNIFIL peacekeepers were stationed, he said.
  
Spain and ‘Israel’ have agreed to carry out a joint probe into the death of 36-year-old corporal Javier Soria Toledo.
  
Another Spanish soldier, Sergeant Julio Xavier Garcia, echoed Sanchez, saying the shells initially fell about 500 metres (yards) north of the UN post and then they "corrected the trajectory towards the position."
  
A third soldier said fragmentation bombs were used in the attack and that the shelling finally appeared to target the main watch tower.