it's worse than i thought

the deaths of the four un workers really WAS on purpose (not unlike the attack on the uss liberty i mentioned a few days ago). i don't get it. i will never get it. (don't misunderstand, i am NOT pro-hezbollah. i am NOT pro anything but PRO PEACE PRO UNDERSTANDING PRO LIVING IN UNITY)

Report: U.N. observers' calls unheeded


By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 26, 6:19 PM ET
U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
The U.N. observation post near Khiam came under close Israeli fire 21 times Tuesday — including 12 hits within 100 yards and five direct hits from 1:20 p.m. until the peacekeepers' post was destroyed at 7:30 p.m., Jane Lute, assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the U.N. Security Council in New York.
U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.
"We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near U.N. workers and civilians," U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said. "That's why it is so inexplicable that what happened happened."
Israeli officials had told the United Nations that the bombing around the base was part of an "an aerial preparation for a ground operation," said the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.........