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The message we want to send to Israel is that if you stop your army, the UN can also change its approach in that part of Lebanon, so that we can peacefully achieve what you’re now trying to do by attacking Hezbollah’s bases militarily,
Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto said The State of Israel places great importance on the activities of Unifil and has no intention of harming the organization or its personnel,
foreign minister Israel Katz said Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a Unifil position,
the mission said in a statement U.S. Central Command forces conducted multiple airstrikes on numerous Iran-backed Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,
a U.S. defense official said, ... according to ABC News We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times,
the peacekeeping mission said In the south, we saw pictures of Israel detonating a whole village, the village of Mhaibib, that’s just on the border,
We are extremely concerned by the dangerous escalation in Lebanon, affirm our support for the Lebanese people,
the GCC said in a joint statement with the EU following a summit in Brussels Hezbollah is in great distress,
he said according to a statement from his office Israel does have a right to go after those legitimate targets, but they need to do so in a way that protects civilian infrastructure, protects civilians,
We understand that Hezbollah does operate at times from underneath civilian homes, inside civilian homes. We've seen footage that has emerged over the course of the past two weeks of rockets and other military weapons held in civilian homes,
We are focusing only on several kilometers from our border to make sure that this area is clean,
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari told journalists recently in a Lebanese village just a few miles from the Israeli border The exclusion of outside observers, whether it is journalists or UN peacekeepers, seems a deliberate strategy to limit the scrutiny of Israeli forces at a time when they are most needed,
It is important in relation to our current decision to stay in the position because we all hope that there will be a return to the negotiating table and that there will be finally a real effort towards the full implementation of Resolution 1701,
There have already been appalling breaches of international humanitarian law and the risk of further atrocities can only increase when the eyes of the world are deliberately blocked,
The UN flag continues to fly,
UN secretary-general spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Sunday I suspect that Israel will argue that UNIFIL should either be given a more robust mandate to tackle Hezbollah or, alternatively, a new non-UN-commanded force should deploy to secure southern Lebanon,
If they manage to get civilians to leave, including peacekeepers, they can stay for as long as they want till they get some deal they want,
said Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in international peace and security at Durham University [It ... It] was never its mandate,
UN peacekeepers and UN premises must never be the target of an attack,
When it comes to the scope and nature of the bombing campaign that we saw in Beirut over the past few weeks, it’s something that we made clear to the government of Israel we had concerns with and we were opposed to,
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said late on Tuesday