A new attack on Friday left two people injured at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL), known as the Blue Helmets, in Naqoura, in southwest Lebanon. This is the second attack in 24 hours and the fourth attributed to Israel against UN peacekeeping troops. According to sources from the Sexta Ministry of Defense, there have been no attacks in the area where most of the Spanish contingent is located and all the soldiers are doing well.
According to the Lebanese national news agency NNA, the attack took place while a “Merkava enemy tank (supposedly Israeli) “attacked one of the UNIFIL towers (…) injuring two soldiers of the Sri Lankan battalion”.
Lebanon’s state news agency, NNA, reported that Israeli forces launched an artillery shell hits the main entrance to the basecausing damage, while a tank attacked an observation tower, injuring two soldiers from the Sri Lankan contingent.
UNIFIL and Sri Lankan authorities have yet to comment on the incident. The attack comes just a day after UNIFIL reported that two peacekeepers Indonesians injured by Israeli projectile impact against a watchtower at the headquarters of Naqoura, amid what he described as attacks “voluntary” of the Israeli army against bases and positions of the UN mission.
Israel describes its invasion, launched on October 1, as a “selective and limited” operation against “terrorist targets and infrastructure”. Hezbollah. The offensive was launched after nearly two weeks of intensified attacks and was accompanied by intensified bombings against the capital, Beirut, and other parts of the country, which left 22 people dead.
