Four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon injured by Israeli shell
25/7/2006 14:47
Four UN peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank shell hit their
position in south Lebanon on Monday. Milos Strugar, spokesman of the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), said in a statement that four
Ghanaian soldiers in the position near the southern Lebanese village of Rmeish
were wounded by the Israeli tank shell. The four had been evacuated to a
UNIFIL hospital at a nearby town, according to the statement. On Sunday, an
Italian UN observer was wounded by Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas' fire during
clashes against Israeli forces in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun
al-Ras. Created in 1978 and deployed in south Lebanon since then, UNIFIL has
been committed to confirming the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restoring the
international peace and security and helping the Lebanese government restore its
effective authority in the area.
Xinhua news
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