Major explosions were reported in the southern Lebanese town of Kounine as Israeli forces continued to carry out demolitions and artillery strikes across the region. An IDF drone also reportedly dropped a pair of sonic bombs on farmers in the area near Kfar Chouba....
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) sees its 48-year mandate to monitor the situation on the Israel-Lebanon border coming to an end at the end of December, and Israel has stepped up efforts to denounce the group in recent days, claiming they found Hezbollah arms...
Israel has long had a problem with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the international peacekeeping force deployed in southern Lebanon since 1978. Complaints historically have been because the force, mandated to document violations of Resolution 1701, have...
Israeli forces continued to carry out heavy airstrikes against southern Lebanon today, with locals reporting airstrikes, drone strikes, and artillery shelling across the region, with attacks reported as far north as Nabatieh al-Fawqa, a town that has repeatedly come...
The future of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) is up in the air as the UN Security Council is poised to start debating the possibility to extending its mandate yet again. The mandate was last extended in 2025, supposedly for the final time, and the US and...
Closed-door meetings this weekend among UN Security Council members showed strong support for extending the mandate for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers, whose mandate is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. Initially established in 1978,...
“Systematic not selective.” That’s how UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel described the Israeli operations to destroy civilian infrastructure and residences across southern Lebanon, during her interview Monday evening on UN Radio. Ardiel said the UNIFIL peacekeepers...
A UN spokesperson expressed concern at the “alarming” rate of Israeli strikes against southern Lebanon in recent days, as the UNIFIL peacekeeping force noted that they’ve documented an average of 137 projectiles fired into Lebanon from Israel daily over the past two...
A growing number of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has led to death tolls once again on the rise, despite what is notionally a ceasefire in place between the two countries. The UNIFIL peacekeepers documented 1,296 trajectories of projectiles fired by Israeli forces in the...
The UNIFIL peacekeepers reported that one of their vehicles sustained significant damage when an Israeli Merkava battle tank twice rammed into it on the road in Bayada, southern Lebanon. The Israeli soldiers were blockading a road regularly used by the UNIFIL for...
