UNIFIL, at present with greater than 9,300 troops, has been stationed in southern Lebanon since 1978 and is tasked with monitoring the “Blue Line” of demarcation with Israel.
UN Safety Council Decision 1701, which ended the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, stipulated that only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers should be deployed in south Lebanon.
Final month, a UNIFIL spokesman mentioned the pressure had recorded greater than 30 incidents in October leading to property injury or damage to peacekeepers, about 20 of them from Israeli fireplace or motion.
“Regardless of the unacceptable pressures being exerted on the mission by varied channels, peacekeepers will proceed to undertake our mandated monitoring and reporting duties,” UNIFIL mentioned.
