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2024-08-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Three peacekeepers injured in explosion in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL says
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[ARABNEWS] Three United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
peacekeepers suffered light injuries Sunday, the UN said, after a blast near their vehicle close to Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
's southern border, where Hezbollah and Israel have traded near-daily fire.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah group has exchanged cross-border fire with the Israeli army in support of ally Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
since the Paleostinian holy warrior group's October 7 attack on Israel sparked the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war.
''Earlier today, three peacekeepers on patrol were lightly injured when a kaboom occurred near their clearly marked UN vehicle in the vicinity of Yarine, in south Lebanon,'' the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said in a statement.
''All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base. We are looking into the incident,'' it added.
Earlier Sunday, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency had reported that ''Israeli enemy warplanes'' struck the village of Dhayra, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from Yarine, ''resulting in injuries.''
A UNIFIL source told AFP the earth-shattering kaboom that injured the peacekeepers was probably a nearby air strike, but ''not a direct hit.''
Earlier in August, Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix told AFP that UNIFIL was today ''more important than ever'' amid the ongoing cross-border festivities, because it was ''the only liaison channel between the Israeli side and the Lebanese side in all its components, such as Hezbollah.''
In April, a judicial official told AFP that an ongoing Lebanese army investigation determined that a land mine maimed three UN military observers and a translator the previous month, while Israel implicated Hezbollah.
UNIFIL's mandate, which expires at the end of the month, is set to be renewed by the UN Security Council for another year.
The cross-border violence has killed 582 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but including at least 128 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
"civilians"
On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to army figures. 
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