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Canadian wife of UN observer bombed in Lebanon blames Israel

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Ottawa (AFP) Jul 27, 2006
The wife of a Canadian UN peacekeeper bombed in an Israeli air strike refused on Thursday to accept her husband's death and accused Israel of intentionally bombing his UN outpost.

"I've been told ... that the Israelis chose to bomb that site with three guided missiles. They're UN soldiers. That should have been the safest place to be. They should not have bombed that site, period," Cynthia Hess-von Kruedener told reporters at a Canadian forces base in Kingston, Ontario.

"That is intentional with three bombs," she said.

"The building was clearly marked. Their vehicles are clearly marked. They are clearly marked as UN. So why were they firing on that base ... Why did they bomb the UN site?"

Precision-guided aerial bombs destroyed the UN base in El Khiam on Tuesday where Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener served as an unarmed UN military observer about 10 kilometers (six miles) from where the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli borders meet.

Three other UN observers from China, Austria and Finland also died in the attack. Hess-von Kruedener was "missing and presumed dead," said Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday.

Cynthia Hess-von Kruedener, refusing to fold to despair, pleaded with UN officials excavating the bunker in search of his body to expand their search in case he escaped the blast and wandered off.

"They need to look elsewhere because I have hope that he is out there somewhere and he needs help," she said.

"Paeta is still missing at this point in time, and I think that's an important thing for everyone to realize, that he's simply missing at this point ... I believe in the power of prayer, and now I'm asking for the world to pray for his safe return."

The Canadian soldier was due to return home on August 16, she said.

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