00:08Spanish Miguel de Cervantes base in Marjajun came under attack.
00:13Four mortar strikes, two Spanish soldiers were injured,
00:17and a Serbian blue helmet, a UN peacekeeper, was killed.
00:22Let that timeline sink in.
00:24A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon brokered with U.S. mediation was announced just the day before,
00:32and within hours someone decided to test it, violently.
00:37Spain's Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez did not hold back.
00:41He condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms,
00:45calling it an act of violence against those who, in his words,
00:49risk their lives to defend peace under the flag of the United Nations.
00:54Sanchez added a direct demand.
00:57That all parties fully comply with the ceasefire announced yesterday.
01:01That hostilities end.
01:03That peace becomes the only future for Lebanon.
01:07But here is the weight behind those words.
01:10Spain does not have a symbolic presence in Lebanon.
01:13It has more than 600 troops deployed there as part of UNIFIL.
01:18These are not observers sitting in offices.
01:21They are soldiers on the ground in one of the most volatile stretches of territory on Earth.
01:27Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares went even further.
01:32He offered condolences to Serbia for the loss of their peacekeeper,
01:36wished a swift recovery to the injured Spanish soldiers, and then made something very clear.
01:42These events must be investigated, taken to the utmost consequences, and those responsible must face international justice.
01:51That is not diplomatic language.
01:53That is a country demanding accountability.
01:56The Spanish government also put it in writing, calling for full compliance with UN 1701, respect for international humanitarian law,
02:07and complete protection for peacekeeping forces operating in the region.
02:12Now the bigger question that nobody has answered yet.
02:16Who fired those mortars?
02:18The attack came less than 24 hours after a ceasefire was declared.
02:23The timing is not a coincidence.
02:26Someone fired on a UN base, on Spanish and Serbian soldiers, on the very people whose job it is to
02:33hold the line between war and peace.
02:36Whether this was a deliberate provocation, a rogue actor testing boundaries, or the opening move of something larger, the world
02:45is watching.
02:46Because if peacekeepers cannot be protected, if blue helmets become targets the morning after a ceasefire, then no agreement in
02:54this region means anything at all.
02:56Spain is demanding answers tonight, and the Middle East once again is holding its breath.
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