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UNIFIL peacekeepers hand out gifts to children

A group of UNIFIL peacekeepers paid visits to special needs children in Ayta ash-Shaab and orphan girls in Tibnin, both within the UNIFIL area of operation in south Lebanon, as part of their community outreach activities, last week.

07 Mar 2018

French students visit UNIFIL HQ

UNIFIL today organized the visit of a group of 23 French university students to the Mission Headquarters in Naqoura, south Lebanon.

02 Mar 2018

Traffic safety workshop for south Lebanon students

UNIFIL peacekeepers organized a traffic safety workshop in Shama, south Lebanon, yesterday for more than 200 young school students from the Mission’s area of operation.

02 Mar 2018

UN Peacekeeper helmet returns to south Lebanon 40-years after the establishment of UNIFIL

This month marks 40-years since the establishment of the UNIFIL Peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon. Starting today, and through the month of March, we will look back at the service and sacrifice of thousands of UN Peacekeepers from around the world who have worked for peace and stability in s

01 Mar 2018

Head of UN Peacekeeping Jean-Pierre Lacroix wraps up Lebanon visit

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, today concluded the Lebanon leg of his wider Middle East tour to visit UN Peacekeeping missions, including UNIFIL, and high ranking government officials.

27 Feb 2018

Nepalese officer takes over command of OGL

The Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), which is a part of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), had a change of command from Commandant Peter Ott (Ireland) to Lieutenant Colonel Ram Kaji Thapa (Nepal) during a ceremony in the UNIFIL Headqu

23 Feb 2018

Indian peacekeepers defy icy conditions to keep peace

Life cannot go business-as-usual during the difficult winter season due to icy conditions in some parts of UNIFIL’s area of operation in south-eastern Lebanon.

17 Feb 2018

Joint UNIFIL-LAF exercise to enhance cooperation

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) conducted a joint exercise combining armoured assets, machine gun and small arms live fire in an area one kilometre south of the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, last week.

16 Feb 2018

UNIFIL head chairs first tripartite meeting with LAF and IDF officials in 2018

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Michael Beary today chaired the first tripartite meeting of 2018 with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the UN position at Ras Al Naqoura.

05 Feb 2018

FCR provides medical support to schoolchildren

Over the course of the past six weeks, UNIFIL’s French and Finnish peacekeepers provided medical support to about 600 children in the city of Burj Kallawiyah, south Lebanon.

01 Feb 2018

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