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Video Shows Alleged Israeli Airstrike Which Killed UN Peacekeeper

© REUTERS / Aziz TaherAn observer tower damaged during Wednesday's exchange of fire between militant Islamist group Hezbollah and Israel
An observer tower damaged during Wednesday's exchange of fire between militant Islamist group Hezbollah and Israel - Sputnik International
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A video taken with a mobile phone and uploaded to the Internet purports to show the IDF firing on a UN compound in southern Lebanon.

MOSCOW, February 1 (Sputnik) – A video has surfaced on the internet which reportedly shows the moment when IDF shelling struck a UN compound on Wednesday, killing a Spanish UN peacekeeper.

According to a translation of the soldiers' conversation into English by Israeli news website Ynet.com, one of the Spanish peacekeepers in the clip, sitting in a vehicle close to the compound's guard tower, is heard saying, "It cannot be that this was from Israel." The second soldier, moments before the shell hit, replied, "It sounds like fire from an area under Hezbollah control."

An Israeli soldier guards an Iron Dome air defense system deployed in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Ynet reports Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, 36, was stationed in the compound's guard tower when he was killed in southern Lebanon, while serving in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL], a peacekeeping mission currently being carried out by more than 10,000 troops of different nationalities.

On Wednesday Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a missile attack on an Israeli military convoy near Shebaa Farms, in Israeli-occupied Lebanese territories on the Golan Heights, which took lives of two soldiers. Shortly after the incident, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah exchanged fire, with Israeli artillery launching at least 25 shells at southern Lebanon. The fighting resulted in the death of a UN peacekeeper.

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