Guterres condemns Israeli attacks on UN peacekeeper positions in Lebanon
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has condemned Israel's firing on positions held by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. Two more are reported to have been injured today, although the cause has not yet been established.
Also in the programme: the Nobel Peace Prize goes to an anti-nuclear group of survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - we hear from one of them; and after partial remains of a British mountaineer who may or may not have scaled Everest in 1924 are found, we talk to his great-niece.
(IMAGE: UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) vehicles drive in Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, October 11, 2024 / CREDIT: Reuters / Karamallah Daher)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News After the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
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| 0:20.2 | just under 20 minutes. But we are going to begin in southern Lebanon and a series of incidents in which Israeli forces have fired on US-UN peacekeepers based in that region. They've been there for decades, but their most recent mission has been to enforce a buffer zone between Israel and Hezbollah following Israel's last invasion in 2006. |
| 0:40.4 | That's under what's known as Security Council Resolution 1701, currently about 10,000 peacekeepers belonging |
| 0:47.4 | to the mission called Unifil are stationed in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:51.8 | But four times in recent days Israeli troops are reported to have fired |
| 0:55.5 | at the UN Peace Keepers' bases. Their headquarters in the coastal city of Nakura were struck again today. Two Sri Lankan peacekeepers were injured by explosions, still |
| 1:06.6 | been investigated. On Thursday two Indonesian soldiers were injured by Israeli fire, an attack condemned by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. |
| 1:17.0 | Obviously I condemn the fact that there was shooting against the UN premise wounding two peacekeepers, which is a violation |
| 1:28.0 | of international humanitarian law. |
| 1:29.7 | Peacekeepers must be protected by all parties of the conflict and what has happened is |
| 1:35.9 | obviously condemnable. There was naturally a reaction from many sides in solidarity with the peacekeepers that were wounded |
| 1:46.4 | and in telling Israel very clearly that this incident is intolerable and it cannot be repeated. |
| 1:54.3 | Andrea Tenanti is a spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission. |
| 1:58.6 | He's been talking to our correspondent in Lebanon, O'Lagerin. |
| 2:02.1 | So this is a very concerning because we have seen a lot in the |
| 2:05.2 | last 12 months exchanges of fire, but this time it looks more of a deliberate attack |
| 2:11.1 | against our troops who have been in the South to try to bring back stability at the moment. |
| 2:17.0 | It is very, very challenging. And the idea for the Israeli forces told us a few days ago, after they told us that they were coming |
| 2:24.3 | entering inside Lebanon that we should move from all the areas close to the |
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