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07/27/06 |
'Rogue elements' behind UN attack
From: AAP
July 27, 2006
ROGUE elements in the Israeli military were behind a rocket attack on a United Nations compound that killed four UN observers, former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer said today.
Four UN observers were killed in the Israeli bombardment on their position in the south Lebanon border town of Khiam early yesterday (AEST).
Mr Fischer, who gained combat experience while serving with the Australian Army in the Vietnam War, said Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon were to blame for the increasingly bloody cross border conflict.
He said the Israeli response to Hizbollah left Israel open to criticism.
"I blame both sides. The Katushya rockets (fired by Hezbollah), their first salvo in Nazareth killed two Arab Israelis," Mr Fischer told ABC radio.
"Clearly there are rogue elements on both sides of the border. There is a rogue element in the Israeli military machine and it's about time the world called a spade a spade and recognised that that element has been there for several years and continues.
"And the evidence unfortunately is going to unfold further in the next 24 hours."
When asked if his judgment on the course of the fatal UN rocket attack was premature, Mr Fischer said: "Of course they (the Israeli government) will investigate it and I look forward to that and of course you will hold final judgment but as prima facie evidence 10 phone calls - 10 calls - were made from that clearly marked UN compound post.
"And why might you be suspicious? Because there's form. In 1996 the Fijians, the poor old Fijians, maintaining a UN compound in exactly the same area took a hit which killed 104 people sheltering in the UN compound and that has become known as the Qana massacre.
"Israel has a right to defend itself, but is being counter productive in the way it is defending itself."
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