Irish UN workers warned Israelis of airstrike six times

It emerged today that the senior Irish officer in Lebanon, Lt. Col. John Molloy, contacted his liaison officer in the Israeli Defence Forces to express his concerns about nearby attacks six times prior to the destruction of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike.

Thirty-six hours earlier, an Irish soldier had been in the Unifil facility at Khiyam where the Finnish, Canadian, Chinese and Australian soldiers died.