UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned recent Israeli attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon that left several peacekeepers injured.
On Sunday, the spokesman for the UN chief quoted Guterres as saying that the Israeli attacks “may constitute a war crime.”
"UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted," Stephane Dujarric said, referring to the blue-helmeted international force. "Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law...(and) may constitute a war crime."
"In a deeply worrying incident that occurred today, the entrance door of a UN position was deliberately breached by [the Israeli military] armored vehicles," he added in a statement.
Dujarric added that UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted.
UNIFIL said the regime’s forces had "deliberately" fired shots at its headquarters in the town of Naqoura in recent days.
He urged all parties, including the Israeli military to refrain from any action that put UN peacekeepers at risk.