Deadly Ambush: Jihadists Kill 10 UN Peacekeepers in Mali in "Retribution for Ties With Israel"

News Staff : Jan 21, 2019
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UN peacekeepers are present in Mali to ward off jihadist and separatist attacks, but have only proved to be moderately successful in recent years.

(Mali)—[JNS.org] A major attack by an Islamic terror group killed 10 UN peacekeepers from Chad and wounded at least 25 others in Mali on Sunday in what the attackers said was a response to Chadian President Idriss Déby's renewed diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. (Photo: Chad's President Idriss Déby during a visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Nov. 26, 2018/Credit: Yonatan SIndel/Flash90/via JNS)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Chad on Sunday, formally rebooting the diplomatic ties which had been severed in 1972.

Assailants in armed vehicles from the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen group arrived at the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali and attacked.

While peacekeepers succeeded in pushing the jihadists back, numerous casualties were reported.

UN peacekeepers are present in Mali to ward off jihadist and separatist attacks, but have only proved to be moderately successful in recent years. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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