🔴 Live: UN Security Council voices ‘strong concerns’ over Lebanon peacekeepers attacks

Summary:

• The UN Security Council voiced “strong concerns” Monday after incidents in which UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have been injured, as Israel presses its campaign against Hezbollah militants in its northern neighbor.
• UN peacekeepers will stay in all positions in Lebanon despite Israeli calls for them to move amid intensifying fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and five blue helmets suffering injuries, the UN peacekeeping chief has said.
• Israel has lauded new sanctions on Iran by the EU and UK over its transfer of missiles and drones to Russia for use against Ukraine. 
• More than 42,289 Palestinians have been killed and 98,684 wounded in Israel‘s military offensive in Gaza since October 7, 2023 according to the Gaza health ministry. 

• Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to hit Hezbollah “without mercy”, a day after a drone attack on a military base near Israel‘s Haifa killed at least four soldiers and wounded more than 60.
• An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to Lebanese health officials and the Red Cross.
• The European Union condemned attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and rejected Israeli allegations that the UN was keeping them there to obstruct military operations against Hezbollah.
• An Israeli air strike on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza killed at least four people and left dozens with severe burns, Palestinian medics said. 

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)