UN observers begged Israelis to stop shelling their position

I guess "precision based missles" just aren't as precise as they used to be. Read this.

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PEACEKEEPERS spent six hours begging Israeli commanders to halt multiple air bombings near a United Nations observation post before a missile killed four unarmed observers there, it emerged last night.
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UN officials said that the monitors made ten phone calls to the Israeli army between 1.20pm on Tuesday — when an Israeli aircraft dropped a bomb 300 metres from the patrol base — and about 7.20pm, when the building was destroyed...(Steve Farrell and Nicholas Blanford, Times Online)