http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/pr09.pdf
it's a pdf so I can't do a cut and paste but the UNIFIL was involved in many close calls with the IDF and one with Hezbollah.
they also were involved with helping civilians leave the area, bringing in humanitarian aid, and FIXING THE ROADS. Maybe that is why they got shot at.
Israel had hit Khiam a number of times earlier on Tuesday
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.
The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5217176.stm
