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UNIFIL’s Ghanaian Battalion (GHANBATT) saw a change in command of its 850-strong force operating in furthering peace in south Lebanon, last week. At a transfer of authority ceremony held in the Battalion headquarters in Al Qawzah on 6 July, the outgoing Commanding Officer Lt Col William Nortey…

UNIFIL’s Ghanaian peacekeepers donated last week a photocopier to a special needs school in Ayta ash-Shaab and a 30 KVA generator set to a community centre in Al Qawzah. The Ghanaian peacekeepers from the outgoing battalion (GHANBATT 84) had organized two benefit musical concerts – in the UNIFIL…

Working hand-in-hand with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) personnel and local municipality, UNIFIL’s Nepalese peacekeepers carried out the campaign of cleaning the historic Shaqra-Dubiyye Fort in south-eastern Lebanon last week. The one-day event saw 54 Nepalese peacekeepers joining 20 personnel…

More than 100 children of two primary schools in Ain Arab and Kleyaa, south-east Lebanon, received scholastic equipment from UNIFIL’s Spanish peacekeepers recently. The Spanish peacekeepers, led by UNIFIL’s Spanish Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Nicolas Gonzalez Chamorro, donated stationary…

UNIFIL French peacekeepers with medical capabilities monitor their substitute patient. Several injured patients, two on stretchers, were rushed to a waiting helicopter. This was part of a real-life scenario and a dramatic air medical evacuation training exercise for UNIFIL peacekeepers stationed in…

UNIFIL peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea organized a joint exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) last week to enhance the latter’s military capabilities. The two-day exercise, from 28 to 29 June, included the Korean contingent’s unarmed combat skills (Taekwondo and combat martial arts)…

Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, UNIFIL Commander, and Brig. Gen. Robert El Alam, representing the LAF Commander, open the LAF Liasion Tactical Operations Center (TOC) in LAF Tyre barracks. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major General Michael Beary, today attended the inauguration of a UNIFIL…

Spain’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Jose María Ferrer De La Peña, visited the memorial of the six UNIFIL Spanish peacekeeper killed in 2007, marking the 11th anniversary of the tragic incident, in El Khiam in south-eastern Lebanon, last week. In front of the commemorative monolith and in the presence of…

UNIFIL’s French-led Force Commander’s Reserve (FCR) got its new commander last week. UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Michael Beary inspected the 12 July transfer of authority from Colonel Olivier Baudet to Colonel Frederic Edel in the French peacekeepers’ main base in Deir Kifa. With 750 French…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Major General Stefano Del Col of Italy as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Major General Del Col succeeds Major General Michael Beary of Ireland, who will…

Photo by Mohamad Almahady, UNAMID. On 18 July 2018 thousands of people, gathered at Abu Shouk Camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in El Fasher, North Darfur, to commemorate Nelson Mandela International Day, observed under the theme: “Take action, Inspire change.” The event marked the…

In a sombre ceremony today, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Michael Beary, fellow peacekeepers and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) paid their last respects to a fallen Indonesian peacekeeper, who died of medical conditions on Monday. In his remarks at a memorial service in…