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Out at sea a crackle comes over the radio: “Motor Vessel Sam, this is the Lebanese Navy. You cannot enter the Lebanese territorial waters from this position.” The reply from the Brazilian ship is uncooperative: “Lebanese Navy…
UNIFIL’s Nepalese Battalion (NEPBATT) Commander and the Mayor of Chaqra inaugurated a series of wall paintings by local students in the south-eastern Lebanese village earlier this week. The paintings depicting Lebanese…
About 2,500 children from UNIFIL’s area of operations in south Lebanon joined UN peacekeepers in Sultaniyah, Tibnin last Sunday to celebrate “Children’s Spring Festival.” The annual event, which was the seventh in a row, saw…
In the antique historical city of Tyre – criss-crossed by a labyrinth of narrow streets and pathways – the onset of spring is usually a boon. The reason: it brings with it economic prosperity in the form of thousands of…
UNIFIL’s Sector West Headquarters football team played a friendly match with a local club from Tyre at the Sour Municipal Stadium on Monday. The event, watched by UNIFIL’s Sector West Commander Brigadier General Francesco…
Bassem Hashem, Deputy Mayor of Shab’a, strolls along the recently graded dirt road and pauses at the new bridge. He examines the construction work and chats with the structural engineer. Construction of this new bridge…
UNIFIL Sector East conducted a two-week long firefighting training with the Lebanese Civil Defense Centres in south Lebanon. The joint activity was attended by 77 volunteers from Civil Defence Centres of Marjayoun, El Khiam…
UNIFIL’s Nepal Battalion (NEPBATT) provided free treatment to 93 patients last week during two medical and dental camps it conducted in Tallousah and Majdel Slim municipalities in south-eastern Lebanon. During a 19 April camp…
UNIFIL’s Sector East (SECEAST) today concluded a nine-day joint Hand-to-Hand combat training with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) at a UN position in Marjayoun. The training, which focused on different theoretical and…
Local farmers and traders had just started to assemble and set up stalls along the main street of Bint Jbeil when UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Michael Beary, accompanied by local dignitaries…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Michael Beary today honoured a French peacekeeper for the latter’s recent endurance run for 24 hours around the Mission Headquarters. Warrant Officer Jérôme Teurtrie…
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri today paid his first visit to the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), as part of his tour of the UNIFIL area of operations in southern Lebanon. UNIFIL…