A U.N. probe into Israel’s killing of four peacekeeping observers was inconclusive because Israel refused to cooperate. The four peacekeepers, from Austria, Canada, China and Finland died on July 25, at the midpoint of the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war, when an Israeli combat plane dropped a 1,100-pound bomb on their bunker after repeated U.N. warnings to Israel about their presence.
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