Working in close coordination with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion (INDBATT) conducted a weeklong vaccination drive against “goat plague” in Halta, south-eastern Lebanon, last week.

The Sector West Headquarters of UNIFIL organized a joint training course with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) yesterday in order to identify and mitigate the potential dangers posed by chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.

UNIFIL peacekeepers held a memorial ceremony in El Khiam in south Lebanon last week to pay homage to the six Spanish peacekeepers killed there in an attack ten years ago.