Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikat condemned the incident in a statement.
UNIFIL was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after Israel’s 1978 invasion.
The UN expanded its mission following the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, allowing peacekeepers to deploy along the Israeli border to help the Lebanese military extend its authority into the country’s south for the first time in decades.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s state-run Al Qahera TV said truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas will resume on Sunday, citing an unnamed Egyptian security source. The channel has close ties to the country’s intelligence services.
Just one weeklong ceasefire has been achieved in the war that began after Hamas-led militants stormed across southern Israel on October 7, killing 1200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 others hostage.
Nearly six months of war has destroyed critical infrastructure in Gaza including hospitals, schools and homes as well as roads, sewage systems and the electrical grid. Over 80 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, the UN and international aid agencies say.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 32,705 Palestinians have been killed. The Health Ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its toll but has said the majority of those killed have been women and children.
Israel’s military has acknowledged shooting dead two Palestinians and wounding a third on Gaza’s beach, responding to a video broadcast earlier this week by Al Jazeera that showed one man falling to the ground after walking in an open area and a bulldozer pushing two bodies into the garbage-strewn sand. The military said troops opened fire after the men allegedly ignored warning shots.
Israel’s military said it continued to strike dozens of targets in Gaza, days after the UN Security Council issued its first demand for a ceasefire.
A three-ship convoy has left a port in Cyprus with 400 tons of food and other supplies for Gaza as concerns about hunger in the territory soar.
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The World Central Kitchen charity said the vessels and a barge carried enough to prepare more than 1 million meals from items like rice, pasta, flour, legumes, canned vegetables and proteins. Also on board were dates, traditionally eaten to break the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
It was not clear when the ships would reach Gaza. The first ship earlier this month delivered 200 tons of food, water and other aid.
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