Please stop bombing us

That sounds like a pretty clear request to me. The BBC is reporting that Israel troops 'ignored' UN plea to halt the shelling before someone was killed. Oddly, or maybe not, the WAPO doesn't mention the story on their front page, and the NY Times just has a subheading mentioning that "an Irish Officer Warned Israel on Threat to U.N. Staff". From the BBC report:

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.

Madness all around.

Just an observation, but what Israel has done is the global equivalent of scratching a poison ivy rash. Now the rash has spread, become virulent and infected, and is threatening to kill the patient.

Back in the day, the US used to be the global player who could generally be counted on to insert a note of sanity into these situations. Unfortunately, we're just as bat-shit crazy as the rest of them now.