UN peacekeepers accuse Israel of ‘deliberate and direct’ attack in Lebanon

The Israeli military, which has deed UNIFIL positions respective times, denies work contempt footage.

United Nations peacekeepers successful confederate Lebanon person reported different Israeli battle connected their positions arsenic crushed and aerial attacks connected Lebanon proceed to declare lives.

The UN Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL) said connected Friday that 2 Israeli subject excavators and 1 bulldozer had destroyed portion of a obstruction and a actual building astatine a UN guidelines successful Ras Naqoura a time earlier.

The Israeli subject denied immoderate activity aft UN forces contacted it to protest, contempt UNIFIL publishing footage of nan incident online.

The Israeli military’s “deliberate and nonstop demolition of intelligibly identifiable UNIFIL spot is simply a flagrant usurpation of world rule and solution 1701”, UNIFIL said, referring to nan UN Security Council solution aimed astatine ending nan 2006 warfare betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

Statement:

Yesterday, 2 IDF excavators and 1 IDF bulldozer destroyed portion of a obstruction and a actual building successful a UNIFIL position successful Ras Naqoura. In consequence to our urgent protest, nan IDF denied immoderate activity was taking spot wrong nan UNIFIL position. pic.twitter.com/gQm02hjNTG

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) November 8, 2024

Since September 30, Israel has many times demanded that UN peacekeepers vacate their internationally mandated premises truthful it tin much freely beforehand pinch its crushed penetration of confederate Lebanon.

The peacekeeping ngo successful confederate Lebanon has been targeted 40 times since then, UNIFIL’s lawman spokesperson Kandice Ardiel told Al Jazeera connected Friday.

Ardiel said 8 of those attacks were confirmed to person originated from nan Israeli army. Peacekeepers person been wounded and spot destroyed successful previous attacks.

Israel besides requested that UNIFIL evacuate 29 sites adjacent nan Blue Line, nan UN-delineated statement of withdrawal betwixt Israel and Lebanon, Ardiel said. Earlier, UNIFIL said Israeli forces person been destroying and removing bluish barrels that people nan Blue Line.

“Yesterday’s incident, for illustration 7 different akin incidents, is not a matter of peacekeepers getting caught successful nan crossfire, but of deliberate and nonstop actions” by nan Israeli military, UNIFIL added.

UNIFIL convoys ‘at risk’

European Union overseas argumentation main Josep Borrell connected Friday said nan bloc condemns an “incident which put astatine consequence an UNIFIL convoy and near respective peacekeepers wounded” aft six Malaysian peacekeepers were injured connected Thursday by an Israeli drone onslaught that killed 3 Lebanese group successful a car nearby.

Borrell’s connection did not straight sanction Israel and said “all parties must guarantee nan information and information of UN unit and let them to transportation retired their captious ngo nether UNIFIL’s mandate”.

A rescuer and a personnel of nan Malaysian battalion of UNIFIL dainty nan coiled of a chap soldier, aft he was injured astatine nan tract of an Israeli airstrike successful Sidon, connected November 7, 2024  [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

Meanwhile, nan Israeli subject continues to push up pinch its crushed cognition successful confederate Lebanon and motorboat aerial strikes crossed nan state arsenic Hezbollah fires rockets and launches drones into Israel.

At slightest 3 group were killed and much than 30 wounded successful 1 of nan latest Israeli attacks connected Lebanon that struck 2 buildings successful nan ancient metropolis of Tyre connected Friday night.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health announced that astatine slightest 15 group were killed and 69 wounded connected Thursday arsenic a consequence of Israeli strikes.

Since October past year, astatine slightest 3,117 group person been killed and 13,888 wounded by Israeli attacks successful Lebanon, nan ministry said. Among them, 617 are women and 192 children.

The casualties see 180 wellness workers. The ministry said hospitals person been attacked 65 times.

Israeli attacks are ongoing crossed nan Gaza Strip arsenic well, wherever much than 43,000 group person been killed since October past year, astir 70 percent of them children and women, according to nan UN. This is while famine is looming successful bluish Gaza, which has been nether siege for much than a month.

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Al Jazeera and news agencies