Israeli forces are razing buildings to the ground in Naqoura, the southern Lebanon town that hosts UNIFIL’s headquarters.
Israeli forces destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to the United Nations peacekeepers‘ main headquarters in southern Lebanon in 24 hours, a UN security official told AFP.
Israeli forces have hit the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) multiple times since invading the country in response to Hezbollah fire in early March, killing and wounding several peacekeepers.
The official, who requested anonymity, said “17 of the headquarters’ cameras have been destroyed by the Israeli army” in the coastal town of Naqoura.
UNIFIL spokeswoman Kandice Ardiel told AFP on Saturday that “the cameras appear to have been destroyed by some kind of laser”.
She added that “[Israeli] soldiers are present in Naqoura and have been undertaking massive demolitions of buildings in the village this week”.
Earlier this week, Ardiel told AFP that “not only have these demolitions destroyed civilian homes and businesses, but the strength of the blasts have caused damage to UNIFIL’s headquarters”.
Three Indonesian peacekeepers from the UN force have been killed in two separate incidents over the past week.
UNIFIL also reported an “explosion” in one of its bases near Odaisseh in south Lebanon that wounded three personnel, adding that they “do not yet know the origin of the explosion”.
The Israeli army accused Hezbollah of firing “a rocket that landed in a UNIFIL outpost”.
The UN office in Jakarta said the wounded were Indonesian.
Indonesia condemned the incident as “unacceptable”, saying “these events underscore the urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces amid an increasingly dangerous conflict situation”.
According to the UN, 97 force members have been killed in violence since its establishment in 1978 to monitor the withdrawal of Israeli forces after they invaded Lebanon.
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