ALBAWABA - A spokeswoman for UNIFIL has announced an investigation into an explosion in southern Lebanon that injured three UN monitors and a translator.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati criticized a UNIFIL vehicle crash in the south that killed several people. Mikati supported the international forces after the onslaught.
UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said "An explosion near the Blue Line this morning injured three UN Truce Supervision Organization military observers and a Lebanese translator on a foot patrol. Evacuated for medical care."
UNIFIL's Temporary Force in Lebanon reported that an explosion near three UN observers and a translator during a foot patrol in southern Lebanon injured them on Saturday. UNIFIL is examining the explosion's cause. UNIFIL called peacekeeping force targeting "unacceptable." Earlier, security sources told Reuters that an Israeli airstrike injured observers.
The Israeli army said, "Contrary to reports in Lebanon, the army did not target any UNIFIL vehicle in the Rmeish area." Security sources reported the incident in southern Lebanon's border town of Rmeish. One source stated the truck carried three UN technical observers and a Lebanese translator.
The unarmed UN Truce Supervision Organization monitors the Lebanon-Israel Blue Line. UNIFIL is an armed peacekeeping force.
Israel has been fighting Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon for about six months, coinciding with the Gaza battle. Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed roughly 270 Hezbollah combatants, 50 civilians, including children, medics, and journalists, and injured UNIFIL and Lebanese army troops.
Several governments consider Hezbollah, or its armed component, a terrorist organization. These include the US, EU, UK, and Arab League nations. German authorities banned the party in 2020 as a "terrorist organization."
