{"id":18193,"date":"2025-09-04T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18193"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:04:08","slug":"israeli-drone-attacks-un-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18193","title":{"rendered":"Israeli drone attacks UN peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United Nations said Wednesday that Israeli drones dropped four grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, with Israel insisting there was &#8220;no intentional fire&#8221; at the force.<\/p>\n<p>UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, called Tuesday&#8217;s incident &#8220;one of the most serious attacks&#8221; since a November ceasefire ended last year&#8217;s war between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>The mission said Israeli forces had &#8220;dropped four grenades close to UNIFIL peacekeepers working to clear roadblocks hindering access to a UN position&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One grenade impacted within 20 metres (yards) and three within approximately 100 metres of UN personnel and vehicles,&#8221; it added, reporting no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said troops &#8220;deployed several (stun) grenades&#8221; in response to &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221;, adding that &#8220;no intentional fire was directed at UNIFIL personnel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The UN force said Israel had been informed in advance of its plans to carry out road clearance work in that area, southeast of the border village of Marwahin.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations said Wednesday that Israeli drones dropped four grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, with Israel insisting there was &#8220;no intentional fire&#8221; at the force. UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, called Tuesday&#8217;s incident &#8220;one of the most serious attacks&#8221; since a November ceasefire ended last year&#8217;s war between Israel and Hezbollah. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}