Even during those wildly infrequent times when UNIFIL tries to do their job, their incompetence and near-total unfamiliarity with military affairs virtually guarantees that they still end up screwing Israel:

Electronic disturbances that have played havoc with the YES satellite television company's broadcasts in the past month were caused by powerful radar equipment deployed onboard a Dutch Navy vessel off the Lebanese coast... The radar was deployed by a UNIFIL vessel, possibly the Dutch vessel HNLMS De Ruyter, an air defense frigate, off the coast of Lebanon. Observers and subscribers are calling on YES to return the monthly fees for YES subscription over the time of the disturbances. Should YES return one month's fee to every subscriber affected, the damages could potentially add up to NIS 100 million.

The Post has learned that shortly after the Israeli Air Force attack on a Syrian target on the night of September 6, perhaps as early as a few hours after the attack, the Dutch navy vessel moved into position and began deploying its radar to obtain as much information as possible about the military events of that night in northern Syria. That same night, massive disturbances to YES transmissions were recorded, largely in northern Israel... For the ship to be interfering with the YES transmission, it had to be facing a certain direction and transmitting on YES's frequency.

This is the best spy ship ever - super stealthy. It turns on its radar and then every single Isreali knows that it's in the region spying on Israeli military assets. Result: up to $500,000,000 in direct damages to the Israeli economy, to say nothing of what we suspect are the thousands of lost hours of Israelis calling up YES to make their feelings known. At least thousands of hours.

It's nice to see UNIFIL incompetence filling in whatever gaps their direct and open collaboration with Hezbollah doesn't cover.

In other Operation Orchard news, one of the weirder confirmations that we've seen: Israel confirmed that Syria confirmed that the air strike that Israel won't admit happened was on a nuclear facility. The Middle East really is just a magical, magical place.

References:
* UNIFIL behind YES disturbances [Ha'aretz]
* Take Away Hezbollah's Collaborators, Human Shields, And Useful Idiots. Disband UNIFIL Now. [MR]
* Israeli official: Syria confirms IAF strike targeted nuclear facility [Ha'aretz]

Previously:
* UNIFIL Involvement in 2000 Kidnapping Not News. Involvement of UNIFIL Soldier Who Thought of Lebanon as "Second Homeland", However, Is.
* UNIFIL: We Suck. We Totally, Totally Suck.
* UN Report: UNIFIL Sucks. They Totally, Totally Suck.