Late Canadian UN Observer: ‘Hizbullah Using UN as Human Shields’
10:30 Jul 28, '06 / 3 Av 5766

(IsraelNN.com) A Canadian officer serving as a military observer in the UN post struck by an Israeli strike overnight Tuesday emailed his former commander that Hizbullah was using his post as a human shield. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was also clear that the IAF was not targeting the observers.

The commander, Major General Louis Mackenzie said in an interview with a Canadian radio station that his former soldier had written to him six days before his death about the recent developments in Lebanon.

According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, Kruedener wrote that the IAF strikes near the post were “necessary”. He also noted that the IDF fire was not aimed specifically at the UN post, but rather at the terrorists.