15 UN peacekeepers injured after Israeli forces destroy main gate of UNIFIL compound in Lebanon
The latest incident comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “immediately” remove UN peacekeepers from combat zones in southern Lebanon.
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00:00Israel has called for the evacuation of the U.N. peacekeeping force from dangerous zones
00:05in southern Lebanon.
00:06The call from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes as the Israeli forces' fight against
00:11Hezbollah left at least five U.N. peacekeepers wounded in recent days.
00:16Netanyahu said the time has come to remove UNIFIL from Hezbollah's strongholds.
00:21We are stopping the attack on UNIFIL soldiers and we are doing everything we can to prevent this attack.
00:27But the simple and demanding way to ensure this is to simply remove them from the dangerous zone.
00:51About 40 countries have so far condemned recent Israeli attacks on the UN mission in Lebanon.