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A women’s cooperative in the village of Harris, south Lebanon, has benefitted from UNIFIL’s donation, enabling the women of the area to prepare food items for mass consumption. The recent UNIFIL donation – that includes…
UNIFIL and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) today paid their last tribute to a Spanish peacekeeper who lost his life yesterday morning while serving for peace in south Lebanon. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major…
UNIFIL’s Sector East Commander Brigadier General Rafael Colomer Martinez Del Peral last week opened a sports facility in Blida, south-eastern Lebanon, for which equipment were provided by UNIFIL. Brig. Gen. Peral opened the…
A group of young children visited the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura, south Lebanon, last week to know about various aspects of the peacekeeping mission’s work. The 45 children, aged between 5 and 12, visited UNIFIL on 8…
As part of UNIFIL’s ongoing cooperation with its strategic partner, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), the Mission’s Sector East peacekeepers have recently conducted a series of joint trainings with LAF personnel in honing…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today chaired a regular Tripartite meeting with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the UN…
“It is a course that helps us acquire basic-self defence skills using daggers and pistols , unarmed self-defence methods against an unarmed opponent, as well as developing our techniques in individual attack and how to use…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col met with Lebanon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Gebran Bassil, in Beirut today, with discussions focusing on a wide range of issues…
The Command of UNIFIL’s Ghanaian Battalion (GHANBATT) changed during a transfer of ceremony held at the GHANBATT Headquarters in Al-Qawzah, South-western Lebanon last week. The 16 July ceremony saw the passing on of command…
UNIFIL today hosted a group of about 50 university students from around the world in its headquarters in Naqoura and at a UN position along the Blue Line in a visit organized by Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and…
Earlier this month, UNIFIL lost one of its peacekeepers, from India. On 16 July, the Mission’s leadership, representatives of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and fellow peacekeepers paid their last respect to Sergeant Ramesh…
UNIFIL peacekeepers from the Mission’s Sector West offered support to location populations in putting out fires over the past several days. The Mission’s Ghanaian, Irish, Italian and Malaysian peacekeepers helped put out…