At least two peacekeepers were injured this Friday in a new Israeli attack against the headquarters of the peace mission of UN in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the fourth attributed to Israel against UN troops in two days. All Spanish peacekeepers are safe and sound.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, ANIthe attack took place when an “enemy Merkava tank (supposedly Israeli) attacked one of the UNIFIL towers, injuring two soldiers from the Sri Lankan battalion”.
Human rights monitoring (HRW) asked the UN this Friday to investigate “Repeated attacks” against UNIFIL operations in southwest Lebanon, violation of the laws of war“after yesterday’s action which left at least two soldiers injured.
People walk near the site of an Israeli attack.
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“UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have long played a crucial humanitarian and civilian protection role,” said Lama Fakih, HRW Middle East and Africa director. of the North, in a press release.
And he recalled that “any attack against UN peacekeepers by Israeli forces violates the laws of war and dangerously interferes with UNIFIL’s civil protection and aid work.
It is for this reason that HRW called on the UN to “urgently establish a international research on hostilities in Lebanon and Israel, with a mandate to publicly report violations. The UN and its member countries must ensure the immediate dispatch of investigators to collect information and draw conclusions about the events. violations of international law“.
Yesterday, UNIFIL reported that at least two peacekeepers were injured in an Israeli attack on a watchtower at its headquarters in Naqoura, in the south of the country, in one of three actions attributed to Israel against UN troops in the past 24 hours.
For its part, the Israeli army accused the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah of “operating” near the posts of the UN mission in southern Lebanon and admitted to having carried out shooting near its Naqoura base.
