JUST IN: Indonesian peacekeeper killed by projectile of unknown origin in Lebanon
In a major development, the following story has emerged from the international scene.
While Donald Trump again assured on Sunday that he was “almost sure” to soon sign a peace agreement with Iran, on the ground the weapons continue to speak. The conflict has even become regionalized since February 28 with daily Iranian strikes against the Gulf countries and numerous collateral victims in Lebanon where Israel wants to destroy Hezbollah. On Sunday, a member of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed. The UN announced on Monday that an Indonesian peacekeeper had been killed the day before by the explosion of a projectile of unknown origin in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli Prime Minister is calling on his army to extend the “buffer zone” against pro-Iranian Hezbollah. Indonesia mentions one dead and three injured. The “projectile exploded on a UNIFIL position near Adchit Al Qusayr,” the UN force said, adding that “another [Casque bleu] was seriously injured. An investigation was opened to determine the circumstances of the tragedy. On X, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, “strongly condemned the incident which occurred on Sunday”. “Another Indonesian peacekeeper was seriously injured in the same incident,” he added. Mentioning for its part three wounded, Indonesia also confirmed that the deceased peacekeeper was one of its nationals. UNIFIL collateral victim of the war This is not the first time that UNIFIL finds itself a collateral victim of the conflict. It reported that its positions had been hit several times during the fighting. On March 7, three Ghanaian soldiers were injured by gunfire in a border town in southern Lebanon.Our file on the War in IranLebanon was drawn into the war between Israel and the United States on the one hand and Iran on the other hand by an attack by pro-Iranian Hezbollah against Israel on March 2 in retaliation for the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed in a strike in Tehran.
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