UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix, assembly Israeli officers Friday, “reiterated calls to uphold the centrality of Decision 1701”, a UN spokesman stated.
That Safety Council decision ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah struggle, stipulating that solely Lebanon’s military and UN peacekeepers must be deployed in south Lebanon.
UNIFIL in an announcement stated an artillery shell hit one in all its posts Friday and didn’t explode, inflicting some injury however no accidents. It didn’t give the origin of the fireplace.
Among the many newest casualties in Lebanon have been 14 members of the principle civil defence facility within the japanese Baalbek space killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday, stated Samir Chakia, a neighborhood official with the company.
“My dad was sleeping right here with them,” stated Suzanne Karkaba, herself a rescuer. “Now it is my flip to select up the items of my dad,” she stated with tears in her eyes.