JAKARTA: Just days after three other Indonesians were killed in separate bombings, three United Nations soldiers from Indonesia were injured in a blast in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to UN officials.
Three peacekeepers were hurt in an explosion that happened inside a UN base close to El Adeisse on Friday afternoon, according to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). They were taken to a hospital. The “origin of the explosion” is unknown, according to the UN Information Center (UNIC) in Jakarta, the injured peacekeepers are Indonesian.
The event on Friday occurred a few days after a projectile explosion in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in combat since Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East conflict on March 2, killed an Indonesian peacekeeper.
On condition of anonymity, a UN security source told AFP on Tuesday that the cause was Israeli tank fire.A day later, an explosion in a UNIFIL logistics convoy in Southern Lebanon claimed the lives of two more Indonesian peacekeepers. According to the military, the corpses of the three dead peacekeepers are expected to reach Jakarta on Saturday night.
Israel, Hezbollah, and other participants were reminded by the peacekeeping operation of their responsibility to protect the peacekeepers, notably by avoiding fighting close to their positions and infrastructure.
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