“President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, adding that evidence suggests Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.”
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Yours too mate
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> PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - A French soldier who was part of international Forces stationed in southern Lebanon was killed, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, adding that evidence suggests Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.
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PatienceOwn972422 hr ago
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France condemns the attack. End.
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PatienceOwn972422 hr ago
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The UN is calling on all parties to exercise restraint and diplomacy
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cwb4ever9 hr ago
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otherwise they will be very very angry with them and they will write a letter telling them how angry they are.
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oulipo21 hr ago
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As mature countries do, indeed. De-escalate and move to the diplomatic field
Sir it is Reuters. Titles are short and news are very short (like 2 or 3 sentences). Can't you read the first sentence?
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PerpetuallyFired1 day ago
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They did that in the first sentence of the arricle
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counters141 day ago
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Problem is that 95% of people who see the title will never read any part of the article at all. They know this, and this is how misinformation is solidified into a narrative allowing for disinformation to take control.
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Mission_Scale_8601 day ago
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F*** Hezbollah!
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WickedFrags1 day ago
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"The Party of God". Lol, what a joke. If God would see how his name is used by inbred maniacs in their pursue to enrich themselves on the backs of suicidal brainwashed idiots, he'd spit in their faces...
*Valid for all sides using God as their motivation and excuse.
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brighterside01 day ago
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It's almost like every person or group that uses God's name to justify atrocities are all pieces of shit.
"Praise be to Allah."
Don't forget who said that.
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Vaulters1 day ago
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Yeah religion in general can get fucked, in my opinion.
Anecdotally I see far more harm than good coming out of the teachings of 'god'. It has no place in a modern world if we want to see humanity progress.
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hushpuppi322 hr ago
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> Anecdotally I see far more harm than good coming out of the teachings of 'god'. It has no place in a modern world if we want to see humanity progress.
People defending the multitudes of mass terror, pain, and suffering that has been inflicted with Religion as a reason or excuse because they genuinely don't know how to be good and have morals without some book telling them to have them is genuinely a scary thought.
I'm not religious *at all* but I still care about people and want the best for everybody.
Meanwhile my extremely religious relatives think every gay person in our country is harming society. Religion doesn't create empathy.
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RobFrankenstein1 day ago
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Ya the problem is as a non religious person I don’t think the way certain atheist groups handle it is any better. They categorize it as “religion” it’s like me saying “sports” they are sports like horseshoe and sports like football obviously different as are religions in the world. You can come here and say all religions are trash. You can probably go anywhere in the west and say that, or most places. Try that in Lebanon and across that region and then you’ll see all religions are not the same.
You don’t need to be religious to see that just not pc.
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LeafsWinBeforeIDie1 day ago
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Reglion: how the evil control the dumb for the last 6000 years.
Maybe it does good things on a local level and as a hygiene guide before sanitation and refrigeration, but globally it has been a net negative on society.
Can't feed anything more selfish in a more impossible to prove way... follow what I say and I promise you a pleasurable afterlife. What hate producing snake oil!
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tehoway1 day ago
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As a retaliatory measure, france strongly condemned the attack and will do nothing further.
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InsightTussle21 hr ago
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Thankfully. What do you want them to do? More war in the middle east?
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Neomataza14 hr ago
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Maybe assault a major global shipping lane. I heard all the cool kids are doing that now.
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oulipo21 hr ago
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Well, as any mature nation would do, indeed. You use diplomacy and de-escalate.
Unlike the american morons like Hegseth and Patel who are drunkards and just send their troops to death for no reason
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loulan22 hr ago
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You say that like France never uses military action in former colonies. When it does, which happens quite often, it gets bashed for it.
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Axpp1 day ago
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You forgot the empty thoughts and prayers for the soldiers family
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Seventh_Planet22 hr ago
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> thoughts and prayers
Thoughts yes, that sounds very French. Prayers? Not so much.
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jusou_4421 hr ago
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this isn't the US my dude. We don't do that here
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ElPablit020 hr ago
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And what do you want us to do ? Fight for/against Israel ? F*** this war and this part of the world, we don’t have to get involved in this shit
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fitzgoldy1 day ago
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So are France going to actually do their duty for Lebanon?
A special relationship and just letting Hezbollah fester.
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LazyAltruist1 day ago
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Even Lebanon's legitimately-elected government doesn't know if there's enough popular support to get rid of Hezbollah & cash in on the Abraham Accords, which is what they actually want.
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Ultra_Metal1 day ago
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I really wonder why the hell UNIFIL is still there. They never do anything. They were supposed to prevent Hezbollah from entrenching itself near the Israeli border but they refuse to do their jobs.
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justiceformahsa1 day ago
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"we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
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greenskinmarch1 day ago
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UNIFIL is just free human shields and PR for Hezbollah.
Should move them to the southern side of the border instead. If Hezbollah rockets regularly hit UNIFIL the news might acknowledge those rockets exist more often.
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JensonInterceptor1 day ago
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Full might of the Irish and Ghanan Peacekeepers failed to establish any peace
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noodlesforgoalposts1 day ago
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Blame the public of the contributing countries, which would not be prepared to tolerate the casualties.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
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They exist as a screen/scout force for Hezbollah.
And Hezbollah does not even appreciate it .
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Panzerkatzen15 hr ago
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That's always been the issue with UN Peacekeepers. They're a show of force, but they don't actually use force other than to defend themselves and only themselves. So terrorists learned they can do whatever they want except shoot at the Peacekeepers.
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HarEr891 day ago
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Hezbollah terrorists did this? Who would have thought.
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itszaidbtw1 day ago
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I wonder if they would do something about it. Probably not, im not big on EU geopolitics, but i dont think countries in EU can fight a war in middle east without rebel groups instantly doing things in their homelands.
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RICO_the_GOP1 day ago
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"Iran kills french soldier in Lebanon via IRG wing known as Hezbollah"
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Full-Fox-3611 day ago
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Hezbollah killed a French person.
I'm sure we will hear the same amount of outrage as when Israel fired NEAR Italian UNIFIL members.
I mean, killing is obviously worse, so the response should be way more severe.
But we know they will either ignore this or blame Israel for it.
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csick1 day ago
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To date Hezbollah has killed 58 French people in Lebanon. This is the first time it’s happened.
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Batman_wears_Crocs1 day ago
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For what it's worth, Israel has *also* killed at least 1 French person in Lebanon during their bombings. War is bad.
[Source](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/frenchwoman-killed-after-explosion-southern-lebanon-france-says-2024-09-26/)
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Nolenag22 hr ago
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Israel has killed UNIFIL forces.
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korben260021 hr ago
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This. Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers two weeks ago.
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ScyD1 day ago
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“Reports say he and UK pm Kier Starmer held an all-night phone call where they shared tears and quiet chants of, ‘we were not involved’….”
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Glum_Courage_63301 day ago
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Wait I’m confused does this mean the French are fighting with Israel in Lebanon?
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LittleLui22 hr ago
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They are there as part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Force_in_Lebanon
It's in the third paragraph of the article.
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ChouetteObtuse23 hr ago
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No. There are agreements between Lebanon and France. Mine clearance, bomb disposal, training, that kind of stuff.
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ChaiabatWolf20 hr ago
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Heartbreaking. Blessings of gratitude and honor to his/her family.
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