Deputy Commander Unifil was injured when the convoy he traveled was attacked by protesters who burned his UN vehicle.
More than 25 people have been arrested after an attack on a UN peacekeeping convoy that injured two people, including a senior commander.
“More than 25 people have been arrested by Lebanese Army Information,” another person has been detained by security services, Lebanese Home Minister Ahmad al-Hajar told reporters after an emergency security meeting on Saturday.
“This does not mean that these detainees carried out the attacks… but the investigation shows who is responsible,” he added.
Major General Chok Bahadur Dakar was on his way out for Nepal on Friday night after a Unifil convoy that had taken peacekeepers to the airport was attacked by protesters.
The Lebanese forces intervened, but not before the UN peacekeeping forces were injured. No second wounded peacekeeping force has been identified.
In a statement, Unifil said that attacks on peacekeeping forces were “prominent” violations of international law and “equivalent to a war crime.”
Lebanese President Joseph Orn condemned the attack on Saturday, saying security forces would not tolerate anyone trying to destabilise the country. aoun “emphasized that attackers will be punished,” a statement from the presidency said of X.
“Set them on trial.”
The protesters are said to be Hezbollah’s supporters and the only one in the country was in the country on Friday, following the decision by Lebanese authorities to stop Israeli forces landing in the capital Beirut by Israeli forces. He said he cut off the road to the airport. Use private flights to smuggle funds to Hezbollah.
The decision argued that the Lebanese government forced pressure from Israel.
In a statement, the Lebanese army said that Hassan Ode’s commander MP contacted Unifil and vowed to “work to arrest the citizens who attack their members and bring them to trial.”
The NNA of the Lebanese state news agency reported that Al Hajar called an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the situation and described the assault as a “crime against Unifil forces.”
The United States also condemned the attack, which said it “caused multiple injuries to the UN peacekeeping forces.” A statement from the State Department said the attack was reported as “reported by a group of Hezbollah supporters.”
Hezbollah attempted to distance himself from the attack in a statement shared on social media by Almanor’s television, which denies the “unruly element” of “since disrupted with suspicious targets on Beirut airport roads.” It looked like there was.
The Amal Movement, a political party of Speaker Navi Beli, Hazbollah’s ally, said “the attack on Unifil is an attack on southern Lebanon,” urging the army and security forces to pursue the assailants.
The Unifil was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon after Israel’s invasion in 1978.
The United Nations expanded its mission following the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, with peacekeeping forces deploying along the Israeli border, and Lebanese forces expanding its powers south for the first time in decades I’ve been allowed to help.
Both Hezbollah and Israel regularly accused Unifil of conspiring, and peacekeepers had previously been attacked by Israeli forces.
During the recent Israeli war in Lebanon, Israel demanded that Unifil leave its position in the south of the country, Israeli tanks trained peacekeepers with guns, destroyed gates at Unifil bases, and the Unifil’s I fired at Misanya.
