UNIFIL head stresses tripartite efforts to preserve stability along the Blue Line
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today chaired a second special Tripartite meeting since the COVID-19 outbreak with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a UN position in Ras Al Naqoura. Discussions focused…
Indian Battalion bags UNIFIL environment award
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col this week handed out annual environmental awards to seven Mission entities for initiating and implementing innovative projects to preserve environment. UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion (INDBATT) was adjudged first for a project…
Sports facility, supported by UNIFIL Indian Contingent, rehabilitated
A sports complex in the south-eastern Lebanese village of Kawkaba received a major facelift recently with the support of UNIFIL Indian peacekeepers. Initially established in 2001 by Indian peacekeepers, the Sardar Patel Sports Complex – named after a founding father of the Republic of India –…
UNIFIL Spanish peacekeepers ensure peace and stability in south-east Lebanon
Thousands of UNIFIL peacekeepers, like Lt. Jorge Tejada from Spain, have been contributing to consolidate peace and stability in south Lebanon since 2006. His patrol unit operates daily around the Marjayoun district and in the rest of their 78 square kilometer area of responsibility, and along the…
UNIFIL implements robust and strict peacekeepers’ rotations system
In early April this year, as cases of COVID-19 Coronavirus spiked world over, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres suspended all rotations of uniformed peacekeeping personnel until 30 June 2020. This robust measure was strategically taken in order to mitigate the risk of…
UNIFIL statement on the explosion in Beirut
As a result of a huge explosion that rocked Beirut Port this evening, one of the UNIFIL ships of the Maritime Task Force docked in the port was damaged, leaving some UNIFIL naval peacekeepers injured – some of them seriously. UNIFIL is transporting the injured peacekeepers to the nearest hospitals…
UNIFIL naval peacekeepers from Bangladesh remain committed amid disaster
The huge explosion that rocked Beirut Port on Tuesday evening (4 August) resulted in several UNIFIL naval peacekeepers from Bangladesh being injured, some of them seriously. The ship was docked at the Port as part of the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force. UNIFIL is currently assessing the situation…
#UN4Beirut: UN staff join hands in solidarity with Lebanese people
The United Nations Staff Unions in Lebanon have collectively launched the #UN4Beirut initiative to show solidarity and support to the people of Lebanon by cleaning the streets of a Beirut district, which was devastated by deadly explosions that rocked the city on 4 August 2020. Under the slogan “…
UNIFIL peacekeepers donate blood for victims of Beirut explosions
Nearly 100 UNIFIL peacekeepers – both military and civilian – donated blood yesterday and today for the victims of the horrific 4 August explosions that devastated a part of Beirut, left hundreds dead and thousands injured. Working in coordination with the Lebanese Red Cross, 96 UNIFIL personnel…
Spanish peacekeepers donate firefighting equipment to Civil Defense
UNIFIL peacekeepers in south-eastern Lebanon donated yesterday a number of firefighting equipment to the Lebanese Civil Defense, a public civil emergency service that carries out firefighting, search and rescue activities across the country. The donation by the Spanish Contingent to seven Civil…
Bangladesh Navy official visits damaged UNIFIL Maritime Task Force vessel
A high-level four-member delegation from the Bangladesh Navy visited last week UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force corvette BNS BIJOY, which was damaged during the 4 August explosions at the Port of Beirut. The delegation, headed by Rear Admiral Mohammad Moyeenul Haque, included a technical and operations…
Italian peacekeepers donate ventilators to Tyre hospitals
UNIFIL Italian peacekeepers yesterday donated four state-of-the-art lung ventilators to the intensive care and pulmonology units of public hospitals of Tyre, south Lebanon, which are on the frontlines in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UNIFIL support, which will benefit some 400,000 people…