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A UNIFIL Malaysian peacekeeper warming up with kindergarten school children next to a heater donated by UNIFIL to Deir Kifa Public school, South Lebanon.
When the temperature drops in South Lebanon you really feel it. Particularly in the local schools. Most of these buildings have single glazed windows, and the concrete walls provide no insulation from the wintery chill.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano meets Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Samir Moqbel.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today called on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Samir Moqbel and LAF Commander Jean Kahwaji in separate meetings in Beirut.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano meets Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today called on the Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Minister of Interior Nouhad Machnouk in Beirut.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano met today at Naqoura Headquarters with religious and local authorities, Naqoura South Lebanon.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today hosted local authorities and religious leaders from south Lebanon at the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura to convey UNIFIL's wishes for a peaceful 2016 and discuss issues of common concern to UNIFIL and the local commu
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano pauses for a picture outside Basel Assad Cultural Center in Tyre.
It's no secret that the primary victims of armed conflict are civilians, in particular women and their children. Yet women are noticeably absent from the subsequent cease fire negotiations and peace agreements.
2015 has just ended and ten years have almost passed from the adoption of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006).
Late this afternoon, UNIFIL was informed that two IDF vehicles were attacked south of the Blue Line in the general area of Sheeba Farms. The IDF returned artillery fire in the general area of Kafr Chouba, Abbasiva and Bastara in UNIFIL's area of operations.
Imran Riza, Deputy Head of the Mission of UNIFIL, inaugurates a new UNIFIL-funded training room at the Agricultural Bureau in Bint Jubayl.
In a new room at the Agricultural Bureau in Bint Jubayl, a round of applause breaks out as Imran Riza, Deputy Head of the Mission of UNIFIL hands out olive oil quality lab testing equipment to representatives from three olive oil cooperatives: Safad Al Battikh, Kunin and Aynata.
The local students from the school choir are eager to meet the choir from Granada.
Students from Sacred Heart School in Marjayoun in south Lebanon celebrated Christmas in a special way this year – they met children from the Sacred Heart School in Granada, Spain.
This evening shortly after 17:30 hrs, UNIFIL radars detected three rockets fired from the general area of Al Hinniyah in southern Lebanon towards Israel. The IDF informed UNIFIL that two rockets had impacted in northern Israel, and a third fell in the sea.