Peacekeepers' Corner

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…

On the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, a detachment of UNIFIL’s Force Commander Reserve participated in the “Tyre By Bike” event on 8 April 2017. Some 400 children…

UNIFIL’s Force Commander Reserve (FCR) in Deir Kifa, south Lebanon, hosted at its base a group of about 60 high school students from Jounieh in the north of Beirut last week. During the visit of the students from Collège des…

UNIFIL’s Sector East (SECEAST) Command organized a 5-day joint training earlier this month on VIP protection at a UN position in Marjayoun. In the training, UNIFIL peacekeepers were joined by 27 Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)…

UNIFIL Indonesian Battalion today inaugurated the project “Support to Civil Defense Centre” in the village of Frun in south-eastern Lebanon. With the completion of the project, completed with the UNIFIL funding of $15,200…

The Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC), with the support of UNIFIL’s Sector East (SECEAST) Headquarters and the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), today conducted an educational program on landmines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs…

UNIFIL’s Nepalese Battalion organized the visit of young children from a local public school in Houla, in south-eastern Lebanon, to its base in Meis Ej Jebel last week. During the 24 March visit, 55 children along with six…

UNIFIL’s Sector East Headquarters organized last week a five-day joint training on “Military Decision Making Process” for 19 officers and warrant officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and various UNIFIL units…

Working with UNIFIL’s Spanish peacekeepers since 16 January, veterinarian experts from various Spanish Universities provided advice, on-the-spot treatments and vaccinations in 24 villages in the UN Mission’s area of operation…

UNIFIL peacekeepers from Ireland and Finland today restored an existing playground in the village of Ein Ibl in south-western Lebanon, that was is in very poor conditions of maintenance. The peacekeepers undertook the task of…