BEIRUT: Three United Nations peacekeepers suffered light injuries on Sunday (Aug 18), the UN said, after a blast near their vehicle close to Lebanon's southern border, where Hezbollah and Israel have traded near-daily fire.
BEIRUT: Three United Nations peacekeepers suffered light injuries on Sunday , the UN said, after a blast near their vehicle close to Lebanon 's southern border, where Hezbollah and Israel have traded near-daily fire.
"All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base. We are looking into the incident," it added. In April, a judicial official told AFP that an ongoing Lebanese army investigation determined that a landmine wounded three UN military observers and a translator the previous month, while Israel implicated Hezbollah.
The Lebanese Resistance Brigades, a group affiliated with Hezbollah, said one of its fighters was"martyred defending Lebanon and supporting the resistance in Gaza", without specifying where.
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