… from Press TV, Tehran

[ Editor’s Note: This comes as no surprise. And when I did a google search just now to see what the Spanish government’s response was to the story, I was not surprised to see nothing.

This is something that everyone going into the military needs to understand. You can be murdered by a “friendly” country, and your own will stab you in the back after your taking oath to protect the country, where your chain of command will pick and choose whom to defend.

It would surprise the Spanish Embassy to start getting a lot of calls on this. After all, they did support Palestinian statehood, which I strongly suggest played a role in their peacekeepers getting this “air mail” from the IDF.

Americans got a big dose of this on 9-11, when the Israelis being watched by the New York Able Danger team were living just a few blocks from Mohammad Atta’s place, where he was videotaped going to see them on several occasions.

VT readers saw this in our Fort Hood story with Gordon and Jeff Smith. We did not get a single call from any of the mainline veterans or patriotic organizations, corporate media, anyone in Congress, or law enforcement.

But at least they know that some people know, and also know that our authorities do not want to know anything about it, so they can avoid having to explain why they are not doing anything… Jim W. Dean ]

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First published … April 06, 2025 –

A new report has revealed that Israeli forces intentionally shelled a United Nations watchtower in southern Lebanon, which left a Spanish peacekeeper dead back in January.

The El Pais newspaper article published on Sunday cited extracts from a confidential Spanish military report on the incident, saying the Israeli forces corrected the trajectory of the artillery fire to hit the UN post. Thirty-six-year-old corporal Javier Soria Toledo was killed in the attack.

According to the report, Corporal Ivan Lopez Sanchez, a Spanish soldier stationed near the post, told investigators it was clear that the UN position was being targeted, noting, “Every time, they corrected the trajectory from Majidiye to the 4-28” post, where the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers were stationed.

A second Spanish solider confirmed Sanchez’s report, saying the first salvo of shells landed some 500 meters north of the UN post and then Israel “corrected the trajectory towards the position.”

A third solider added that the fragmentation bombs used in the attack targeted the post’s main watchtower.

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Read Full Complete Bio >>> Jim’s Latest Posts Jim W. Dean is Managing Editor of Veterans Today involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews. He broke into television work doing Atlanta Public TV programs for variety of American heritage, historical,military, veterans and Intel topics and organizations since 2000. Jim’s only film appearance was in the PBS Looking for Lincoln documentary with Prof. Henry Lewis Gates, and he has guest lectured at the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon, GA.He is working to find time now to database his extensive video archive of Americana and interviews filmed during his public TV days so individual topic segments can be key word searched to quickly use in future multi-media projects.