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Tough guy jumper killed in UN bombing Hess-von Kruedener a serious soldier View Larger Image Major Hess-von Kruedener is shown in an undated photo being presented with his jump certificate. Hess-von Kruedener is missing and presumed dead after an Israeli bomb flattened a clearly marked UN post in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 killing three other observers. Photograph by : Canadian Press/Canadian Forces Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * with files from Vito Pilieci, Lance Crossley and MatthewFisher, CanWest News Service, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Published: Thursday, July 27, 2006 Maj. Paeta Derek...

An Israeli bomb destroyed a UN observer post on the border in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing four peacekeepers, including a Canadian, a UN official said. UN chief Kofi Annan said Israel appeared to have struck the site deliberately. The dead included observers from Canada, Austria, China and Finland, a senior Lebanese military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information to the media. Canada had eight personnel in the area as part of the UN Truce Supervision Organization. One Canadian UN staffer was believed to be in the area struck by...

Canadian killed from UN force complained his position shielding Hizbullah Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 26 July 2006 "...the tragic loss of a soldier yesterday who I happen to know and I think probably is from my Regiment. We've received e-mails from him a few days ago and he described the fact that he was taking within - in one case - three meters of his position "for tactical necessity - not being targeted". Now that's veiled speech in the military and what he was telling us was Hizbullah fighters were all over his position and the IDF were (sic) targeting...

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he doubts it was deliberate, a full investigation is needed into the Israeli air strike that killed four UN military observers in Lebanon, including Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener of Kitchener. Reports that before the outpost was hit, UN peacekeepers called the Israeli military 10 times in a six-hour period asking it to halt bombing in the immediate vicinity, and that these requests were ignored, are disturbing. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has apologized for the tragedy, insisting it was a mistake, but also promising a full investigation. He should be held to his...

BEIRUT - In the days leading up to his death, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener was a soldier under siege, trapped in his UN compound as the war closed in around him. But even as the bombing intensified, the Canadian peacekeeper managed to send a letter from the front lines. "What I can tell you is this; we have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial bombing," he wrote in an e-mail just nine days before he was killed with three other UN peacekeepers by an...

Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, in South Lebanon in March.On July 18, he provided CTV.ca with an update of his mission via e-mail. The PMO has identified Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener as the Canadian Forces soldier missing and presumed dead in an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon Tuesday. Hess-von Kruedener, a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, died when a bomb directly hit the UN observer base in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel. Hess-von Kruedener had completed nine months of his one-year tour of duty with the UN in Lebanon....