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UNIFIL today marked the International Day of Peace during a ceremony at its headquarters in Naqoura, south Lebanon.
This morning, a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Maritime Task Force (MTF) ship located at sea outside Lebanese territorial waters a boat with 37 people inside.
Ninety UNIFIL peacekeepers have tested positive for COVID-19 Coronavirus.
UNIFIL’s Sector East units trained last week with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) in the Sector Headquarters in Ibl el-Saqi.
Independência, the flagship of UNIFIL's 6-vessel Maritime Task Force (MTF) fleet, docked in Beirut on 21 August for the first time since the two devastating blasts levelled the port on 4 August.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today chaired a special Tripartite meeting with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a UN position in Ras Al Naqoura.
As part of the ongoing UNIFIL support to host communities in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mission’s peacekeepers from China donated yesterday medical supplies to the local communities of Al Qulaylah and Zibqin in south-western Lebanon.
UNIFIL Sector West peacekeepers have helped upgrade a municipal milk processing and storage facility in Aytarun, in the Bint Jbeil district of south-western Lebanon, with the donation of a new processing plant and other machinery last week.
“On Tuesday, 25 August starting around 11:00 p.m., UNIFIL observed a number of flares fired from several IDF positions along the Blue Line across from Aytarun, Ayta Ash-Sha’b, Meiss Ej Jebel, Houla, Kfar Kila and Kfar Shouba in south Lebanon.
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers and UNIFIL peacekeepers trained together for three days on first aid and trauma management last week in the UN Mission’s Sector East Headquarters in Ibl el-Saqi, south-eastern Lebanon.