Israeli Army Fire Hits UN Lebanon Base for First Time Since Ceasefire
Direct fire from the Israeli military hit the perimeter of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s (UNIFIL) peacekeeping positions in South Lebanon, the mission announced.
In a statement on Wednesday, UNIFIL said that the incident on Tuesday was the first of its kind since Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire last November.UNIFIL added one of its bases in the village of Kfarchouba in Southern Lebanon was hit. “In recent days, UNIFIL has also observed other aggressive behaviour by the [Israeli military] towards peacekeepers performing operational activities in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701,” it wrote in a post on X, referring to a UN resolution originally adopted in 2006 to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
Tuesday’s incident occurred near the Blue Line, a UN-mapped demarcation separating Lebanon from the occupied Palestinian territories and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, it noted.Any unauthorised crossing of the Blue Line by land or by air from any side constitutes a violation of Security Council Resolution 1701.UNIFIL cited other alleged incidents it blamed on the Israeli Army, including being targeted by lasers while it was performing a patrol with the Lebanese Army in the Southern border town of Maroun al-Ras on Tuesday.“UNIFIL protests all such and we continue to remind all actors of their responsibility to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN assets and premises at all times,” it added.
The November ceasefire ended a conflict in which Israel attacked Lebanon by air and invaded the country, devastating vast swaths of Southern Lebanon. Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack in September.The ceasefire terms require that neither Hezbollah nor any other armed group have weapons in areas near the border South of the Litani River, which flows into the Mediterranean some 20km (12 miles) North of the occupied territories' border.They require Israel to withdraw soldiers from the South and the Lebanese Army to deploy into the border region.Although the truce officially ended hostilities, sporadic cross-border attacks have continued. Israel has regularly broken the truce and carried out air attacks across Southern Lebanon, also hitting neighbourhoods in Beirut’s Southern suburbs.Israel still occupies five strategic hilltops along the border.
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