AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Forty countries contributing to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon demand an immediate halt to Israel’s attacks on peacekeepers.
At least five members of the mission, known as UNIFIL, have been wounded in south Lebanon in recent days amid Israel’s invasion of the country.
UNIFIL said the regime’s forces had "deliberately" fired shots at its headquarters in the town of Naqoura in recent days.
"Such actions must stop immediately and should be adequately investigated," said the countries in a joint statement, which was posted on X by the Polish UN mission on Sunday.
The contributing nations reaffirm their “full support for UNIFIL's mission and activities, whose principal aim is to bring stabilization and lasting peace in South Lebanon as well as in the Middle East.”
UNIFIL is tasked with monitoring a ceasefire that ended a 33-day war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah. It was first established as an interim force in 1978 to confirm Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.
The mission now involves about 9,500 troops of some 50 nationalities.
It said that Israel’s tank fire on Thursday caused two Indonesian peacekeepers to fall off a watch tower in Naqoura. And on Friday night, a peacekeeper in Naqoura “was hit by gunfire.”
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