Shots Fired at UNIFIL Post on Israel-Lebanon Border
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Peacekeeping mission launches investigation, warns attacks on personnel may amount to ‘war crimes’
UN peacekeeping force says shots fired at post on Israel-Lebanon border
BEIRUT: The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said one of its posts was targeted on Wednesday near the border with Israel by small-arms fire, but there were no casualties. “This morning, several rounds of small arms fire impacted a UNIFIL position near Kfar Shouba along the Blue Line in Sector East,” the UN force said in a statement, referring to the de facto border between Israel and Lebanon. The blue helmets described the shooting as “un…
This article was first published via Cedarnews.net. To follow up on more news and exclusive reports, they visited us on our site. In a statement, UNIFIL announced that its position near Kafr Shouba on the Blue Line in Sector East had been hit this morning by light-weapons fire, all peacekeepers stationed at the site rushed into hiding after the first round of shooting, and no injuries were recorded.
Beirut: UNIFIL announced that a position near the border with Israel had been fired from light weapons without the result of the incident. In a statement, UNIFIL stated that a UNIFIL position near Kafr Shouba had been fired on the Blue Line in Sector East this morning. [...]
In the evening of Wednesday, southern Lebanon witnessed an escalation in the field, with Israeli warplanes carrying out a series of incursions into several areas, concurrently with heavy and low-altitude flights over the south, while UNIFIL announced that one of its positions near Kfarshuba had been fired upon by light weapons, with no casualties recorded among its forces. The escalation was accompanied by the post of Israeli escalation in south…
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