Israel's row with UN over Lebanon peacekeepers driven by long distrust
Unifil has been operating along the Israel-Lebanon boundary since 1978/ Tensions between Israel and the UN over its peacekeeping operations in southern Lebanon have escalated in recent days – although the confrontations have their roots in years of mistrust and recriminations. In the latest standoff, the head of UN peacekeeping operations rejected a call on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the forces known as Unifil to pull out of “combat areas”. The UN force was established in 1978 after the Israeli invasion of ...
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