{"id":44113,"date":"2024-10-11T06:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=44113"},"modified":"2024-10-11T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T06:31:36","slug":"israel-military-indiscriminately-shot-at-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/10\/11\/israel-military-indiscriminately-shot-at-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel military indiscriminately shot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon-UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix has told the security council that the safety of more than 10,400 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon was \u201cincreasingly in jeopardy\u201d and operations had virtually halted since late September, coinciding with Israel\u2019s escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeacekeepers have been confined to their bases with significant periods of time in shelter,\u201d he said, adding that the mission – known as Unifil – was ready to support all efforts towards a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments came after the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said\u00a0Israeli forces had deliberately fired on its positions, injuring two peacekeepers from Indonesia. Unifil called attacks on peacekeepers \u201ca grave violation of international humanitarian law\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House said the US was deeply concerned by those reports and was pressing\u00a0Israel\u00a0for details. Israel\u2019s military said its troops operated in the Naqoura area, \u201cnext to a Unifil base\u201d. \u201cAccordingly, the IDF instructed the UN forces in the area to remain in protected spaces, following which the forces opened fire in the area,\u201d Israel\u2019s statement said, adding it maintains routine communication with Unifil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The base of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Ebel El Saqi Marjeyoun District, southern Lebanon, 10 October 2024. Photograph: EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The peacekeepers were determined to remain at their posts despite Israeli attacks and orders by Israel\u2019s military to leave, said the UN force\u2019s spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti. Its 50 contributing countries had agreed on Thursday to keep deploying more than 10,000 peacekeepers between the Litani River in the north and the UN-recognised boundary between\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0and Israel known as the Blue Line in the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are there because the [UN] security council has asked us to be there. So we are staying until the situation becomes impossible for us to operate,\u201d Tenenti said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York, Israel\u2019s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said Israel recommended Unifil relocate 5km north \u201cto avoid danger as fighting intensifies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix has told the security council that the safety of more than 10,400 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon was \u201cincreasingly in jeopardy\u201d and operations had virtually halted since late September, coinciding with Israel\u2019s escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. \u201cPeacekeepers have been confined to their bases with significant periods of time in shelter,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11394,9290,12246,4066,10427,6159,10754,12957,8124,10954,3095,10342,9667,5572,12085,990,7964,5466,9110,5655,5752,11259,9178,5465,11578,7999,6348,6571,2982],"class_list":["post-44113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-attacks","tag-blue-line","tag-diplomatic","tag-el","tag-epa","tag-fire","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-indonesia","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-law","tag-lebanon","tag-military","tag-nations","tag-new-york","tag-north","tag-peacekeeping","tag-river","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-shot","tag-troops","tag-un","tag-un-peacekeepers","tag-united-nations","tag-us","tag-white","tag-white-house"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44115,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44113\/revisions\/44115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}