Four UN peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank shell hit their
position in south Lebanon yesterday.
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 inthe area.
