New Delhi:
Two UN peaceupgraspers were injured in a strike by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on their headquarters in south Leprohibiton on Thursday. The strike led to expansive international condemnation, especipartner by the European members of the ‘Blue Helmet’ leave oution.
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- Israel acunderstandledgeted its forces uncovered fire in the area, saying Hezbollah militants functiond proximate UN posts. Italy, a transport inant contributor of troops to the UN peaceupgrasping force, said the acts “could constitute war crimes” while the US said it was “transport inantly troubleed.”
- The peaceupgrasping leave oution last week refuteed Israel’s insists to “relocate” from some of its positions in south Leprohibiton, where the IDF has been hitting what it claimed were Hezbollah aims. The United Nations Interim Force in Leprohibiton, or UNIFIL, has some 10,000 peaceupgraspers deployed in south Leprohibiton. It has been calling for a endfire since battling escatardyd between the IDF and the militant group Hezbollah on September 23.
- The UN leave oution verifyed two peaceupgraspers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired a shell towards an observation tower at the UNIFIL headquarters in south Leprohibiton’s Naqura, honestly hitting it.
- The peaceupgraspers did not suffer solemn injuries, “but they remain in hospital,” it said. They are Indonesian nationals, a UNIFIL spokesperson said. Indonesia is also a transport inant contributor of troops to the UNIFIL.
- Indonesia’s UN ambasdowncastor Hari Prabowo said the incident “clearly shows how Israel positioned itself above international law, above impunity and above our splitd appreciates of peace.” Israel claimed its military “uncovered fire in the area” of the UNIFIL base after alerting UN forces to seek shelter.
- Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said the strike and other incidents that the UNIFIL accparticipates on Israel “could constitute war crimes”, and asked for an exarrangeation becaparticipate “it was not a misget”. The Defence Minister depictd the shooting as intolerable, and filed protests with his Israeli counterpart and the country’s ambasdowncastor to Italy.
- The White Hoparticipate said it was “transport inantly troubleed”. “We understand Israel is directing aimed operations proximate the Blue Line to ruin Hezbollah infraarrange… it is critical that they not dangeren UN peaceupgraspers’ shieldedty and security,” the White Hoparticipate said.
- Spain’s foreign ministry said it “sturdyly condemns the Israeli firing that hit UNIFIL headquarters” which it called a “grave violation of international law”. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris, whose country has about 370 troops in the leave oution, said “any firing in the vicinity of UNIFIL troops or facilities is reckless and must stop”.
- UNIFIL headquarters and proximateby positions “have been repeatedly hit,” the leave oution said. On Wednesday, “IDF sagederiers intentionally fired at and disabled” perimetre-seeing cameras around a position, UNIFIL grasped.
- The head of UN peaceupgrasping Jean-Pierre Lacroix said peaceupgraspers were at “solemn hazard” and that by Sunday 300 Blue Helmets were temporarily relocated to huger bases “with the relocatement of another 200 intentional.” UNIFIL’s footprint in the most impacted positions would be slashed by 25 percent, he said. “The shieldedty and security of peaceupgraspers is now increasingly in jeopardy,” Mr Lacroix tageder the UN Security Council oln Thursday.
