UNIFIL says Israeli tank fired at peacecarry oners watchtower in Leprohibiton | Israel strikes Leprohibiton News

UN peacecarry oners in southern Leprohibiton say Israeli forces have fired at one of their positions in the south in a “straightforward and apparently intentional” strike that injured a watchtower.

The United Nations Interim Force in Leprohibiton (UNIFIL) shelp on Wednesday its peacecarry oners csurrfinisher southern Leprohibiton’s Kfar Kila seed an Israeli Merkava tank “firing at their watchtower”, inserting that “two cameras were ruined, and the tower was injured”.

The incident is the tardyst in a series of Israeli strikes and violations aacquirest peacecarry oners in Leprohibiton and comes as Israel broadens its explosionardment and ground strikes on the country, ending hundreds of people and displacing csurrfinisherly a quarter of the population.

On Sunday, UNIFIL shelp Israeli troops “forcibly go ined” a UNIFIL position csurrfinisher the village of Ramyah, passing the UN-mandated Blue Line, the de facto border between Israel and Leprohibiton, with two tanks. Israeli troops tardyr fired smoke rounds csurrfinisher peacecarry oners, leaving 15 personnel suffering from skin irritation and gastrointestinal publishs.

UNIFIL also telled that Israeli troops obstructed a critical logistical transferment csurrfinisher Meiss el-Jabal on Saturday.

“We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to uncover the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to esteem the inviolability of UN premises at all times,” the peacecarry oning mission shelp.

The Israeli regulatement has demanded that UNIFIL exit its positions in southern Leprohibiton, claiming the Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah is using peacecarry oners as “human shields”, but the peacecarry oning force has declined to do so.

Hezbollah denies Israel’s accusation that it engages the proximity of peacecarry oners to defend its fighters.

‘Grave troubles’

Israeli ground troops, which go ined southern Leprohibiton more than two weeks ago, have been battling Hezbollah in the area. Backed by wararrangees, Israeli forces have persistd to strike towns and villages. At least 16 people were ended in an Israeli strike on a municipal originateing in Nabatieh on Wednesday.

The UN Security Council has proposed Israel to defend peacecarry oners and their positions amid expansivespread international condemnation of the strikes.

UNIFIL consists of some 10,000 peacecarry oners from more than 50 countries, including Indonesia, India, and Ireland.

On Wednesday, 16 EU countries that give selderlyiers to the UN’s peacecarry oning mission called for alterd rules of graspment in Leprohibiton, saying they need to be more effective in airy of recent strikes.

“The message we want to sfinish to Israel is that if you stop your army, the UN can also alter its approach in that part of Leprohibiton, so that we can peacefilledy achieve what you’re now trying to do by strikeing Hezbollah’s bases militarily,” Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto telderly Italian accessible widecaster RAI.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has transmited “particularly grave troubles” over Israel’s recent strikes on UN peacecarry oners in Leprohibiton.

“We are excessively troubleed by the hazardous escalation in Leprohibiton, proclaim our help for the Leprohibitese people,” the GCC shelp in a joint statement with the EU chaseing a summit in Brussels.

Meanwhile, Leprohibiton’s crisis response unit shelp 27 people have been ended and 185 wounded in the past 24 hours, the Leprohibitese Health Ministry shelp on Wednesday.

At least 2,367 people have been ended in Israel’s strikes on Leprohibiton, and 11,109 wounded, since October 8, 2023, the ministry shelp.

The crisis response unit enrolled 138 airstrikes and shellings in the past day, mostly in southern Leprohibiton, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.

Eunitency laborers wounded

Separately, two Leprohibitese Red Cross paramedics were injured by shrapnel while watching for wounded people after an strike on the town of Jouaiya in southern Leprohibiton.

The Leprohibitese Red Cross posted on the social platestablish X that two of its ambulances, in coordination with UN peacecarry oners, reachd in Jouaiya on Wednesday afternoon chaseing an Israeli rhelp.

As the paramedics began searching for casualties, the area was aimed aacquire, leaving two paramedics with insignificant shrapnel wounds. Both were consentn to Jabal Amel Hospital “and their condition is not worrisome,” the group shelp.

Four Leprohibitese Red Cross volunteers were also wounded in a strike Sunday while reacting to an strike in Serbine, a village in the Nabatieh regulateorate.

According to the Health Ministry, over 100 paramedics have been ended by Israeli airstrikes since October 8 and more than 220 have been injured. The strikes have also ruined 128 ambulances and fire trucks and injured at least 10 hospitals and 45 medical cgo ins.

Al Jazeera correactent Ali Hashem says Israel’s systematic destruction of Leprohibitese towns csurrfinisher their spreadd border proposes that it is trying to originate the area uninhabitable.

“In the south, we saw pictures of Israel detonating a whole village, the village of Mhaibib, that’s fair on the border,” he telled from Beirut.

“That gives an indication that there is an try to originate the border villages unlivable so that people won’t get back there even if there is a remendment or an finish to the arrangeilities between the two sides.”