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In recent days, UNIFIL soldiers have been the subject of attacks by Israeli forces in Lebanon, angering many Western countries that are members of this UN military force.
INTERNATIONAL – Paris passes the second against Israeli officials. After new Israeli strikes against peacekeepers, members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Friday, October 11, that it would summon the Israeli ambassador to France.
France being one of the main contributors to this UN armed force in Lebanon, the Quai d’Orsay estimates that ” these attacks constitute serious violations of international law and must stop immediately”. Reason why “the Israeli authorities must explain themselves” in front of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
« France condemns the continuation of deliberate Israeli fire against UNIFIL », We can also read in the press release shared by the Quai d’Orsay. On Thursday, Italy, another contributing country to UNIFIL, was the first nation to summon Israel’s ambassador to Italy over the attacks on the Blue Helmets.
“Very high risk” for the soldiers
This Friday, UNIFIL announced that two Sri Lankan peacekeepers had been injured near the border with Israel, judging that the Israeli army’s fire posed a “very high risk” for his soldiers. It must be said that the day before, two Indonesian soldiers from the same force were injured in an Israeli attack on the UNIFIL HQ in Ras al-Naqoura.
This same HQ hit on Thursday “suffered explosions for the second time in 48 hours”UNIFIL reported this Friday. Not to mention that “Israeli tanks advanced” et “an Israeli army bulldozer brought down sections of the protective wall” from a UNIFIL position in the Lebanese village of Labbouné.
As early as Thursday, UNIFIL had accused Israeli troops of shooting “repeatedly” on its positions, reporting that they had “deliberately fired at the position’s cameras, rendering them inoperable” et “on a position where tripartite meetings were held regularly before this conflict”exacerbating criticism from UNIFIL member countries against the military actions of the Jewish state on the border with Lebanon.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.fr
