UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix, meeting Israeli officials Friday, “reiterated calls to uphold the centrality of Resolution 1701”, a UN spokesman said.
That Security Council resolution ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, stipulating that only Lebanon’s army and UN peacekeepers should be deployed in south Lebanon.
UNIFIL in a statement said an artillery shell hit one of its posts Friday and failed to explode, causing some damage but no injuries. It did not give the origin of the fire.
Among the latest casualties in Lebanon were 14 members of the main civil defence facility in the eastern Baalbek area killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday, said Samir Chakia, a local official with the agency.
“My dad was sleeping here with them,” said Suzanne Karkaba, herself a rescuer. “Now it’s my turn to pick up the pieces of my dad,” she said with tears in her eyes.
