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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.
From right to left: UNIFIL Director of Mission Support Mr.Wolfgang Weiszegger, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano, LAF South Litany Sector Commander Brigadier-General Charbel Abou Khalil and LAF Intelligence Chief (Southern region) Brigadier-General Khodor Hammoud.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) donated a number of UN-owned information-technology equipment to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the General Security Directorate/ Sûreté Générale (SG) at a ceremony held on 16 December at its headquarters in Naqoura, South Lebanon.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano with LAF’s Brigadier-General Anton Mourad and Brigadier-General Hassan Bacharoouch at Blue Line marking in the vicinity of Kafar kela.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today reviewed the ongoing work for visible marking of the Blue Line (Line of Withdrawal) in the area of Kafer Kela in southern Lebanon.
In a classroom in Quallawiyah primary school, South Lebanon, students practice French vocabulary and grammar with their teachers. With native French speakers guiding them, these students will be have a higher chance of commanding the accent and inflection of this melodic language.
On Wednesday, 2 December, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano held a meeting with Ambassadors of UNIFIL Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs), Permanent Members of the UN Security Council and representative of the EU Delegation to Lebanon at UNIFIL House in Be