Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

IDF: Hezbollah fire hits UNIFIL post in Southern Lebanon, injuring three

The terror group “continues to operate in a manner that endangers international forces and harms U.N. personnel operating in the area,” the IDF said.

Guterres Lebanon
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, at the headquarters of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura, Lebanon, on Jan. 17, 2025. Credit: Pasqual Gorriz/U.N. Photo.

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday identified a launch by the Hezbollah terrorist organization that struck a UNIFIL post in the Al-Aadaissah area of Southern Lebanon, the military said.

As a result of the fire, three U.N. personnel were injured, two of them seriously.

“A review of the launch trajectory clearly indicates that the fire was carried out by Hezbollah,” the IDF said.

“The Hezbollah terrorist organization continues to operate in a manner that endangers international forces and harms U.N. personnel operating in the area,” it added.

“We tried to make it clear to them that this is a memorial that was built for those who died in a horrible terrorist attack,” Lawrence Puccini told JNS.
Three other soldiers were lightly wounded when the military vehicle overturned.
Sophie Shabot experienced “verbal harassment, being chased, being pushed and shoved, being spat on, yelled at, blocked from entering a building,” according to her lawyer.
“It’s actually hard to find a sentence in Mamdani’s post that isn’t a lie,” Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter said, of the New York City mayor.