UNIFIL peacekeepers facilitated safe movement of Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense ambulances carrying patients in urgent need of medical care who had been stranded for days in the town of Rmeish due to intensified fighting along the main access routes, escorting them out of the village yesterday.
As soon as the situation of the patients was reported to the Commander of UNIFIL Sector West, Brigadier General Andrea Fraticelli, who was in the town for the delivery of medicines, food parcels, personal hygiene supplies and a vehicle, their movement was made possible with UNIFIL’s coordination with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The operation was successfully completed in the evening hours, when the ambulances reached Tyre safely, allowing the civilians, including women, children, and elderly, to continue their onward journey to the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
This is one of several activities UNIFIL peacekeepers undertake every day in support of the people affected by the ongoing hostilities in the south, as well as those displaced to other parts of the country.
UNIFIL’s ongoing liaison and coordination mechanism with the parties has been vital to enable the work of various humanitarian organizations in the mission’s area of operations in south Lebanon.
