On Monday, May 11, between 5:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., “three suspected Hezbollah drones detonated in an area where Israeli security forces soldiers may have been present, a few meters from the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqurah,” the mission said in a statement.
Multiple incidents
Another drone detonated in the same area on Tuesday, May 12, around 5:20 p.m., and a few minutes later, “a suspected Hezbollah drone detonated inside UNIFIL headquarters.” No injuries were reported, but some buildings were damaged.
In another incident on the afternoon of Sunday 10 May, an unarmed drone crashed in an open area within UNIFIL headquarters. No one was injured.
UNIFIL said preliminary findings indicated that the drone had been manufactured in Iran, “suggesting that it had been launched by Hezbollah.”
The peacekeeping mission also reported that on Tuesday, May 5, an armed drone guided by fiber optics, also believed to be linked to Hezbollah, crashed into the roof of a building at a UN position near Al Hinniyah in the Tire district of southern Lebanon. The drone did not detonate and no injuries were reported.
Ensure the security of peacekeepers
UNIFIL reiterated its call to all actors to avoid operating near United Nations positions and personnel and to refrain from any action that could endanger peacekeepers.
The mission said it had specifically protested the presence, activities and movement of Israeli security personnel and vehicles near the UNIFIL headquarters. He had also protested to the Lebanese Armed Forces about the activities of non-state actors near UN positions.
According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli strikes have killed more than 380 people since the ceasefire began. The total number of victims of Israeli attacks since March 2, when war broke out shortly after Israeli and US bombing of Iran began, has now reached more than 2,880 people, including 279 women and 200 children.
Hostilities continue
Elsewhere in southern Lebanon, two airstrikes on Tuesday destroyed several buildings in the village of Sohmor in Bekaa governorate after movement orders were issued overnight for the entire village.
According to the UN humanitarian aid office, OCHA, attacks continue to affect healthcare and essential civilian services, including an attack on Monday that hit a volunteer-run medical center affiliated with the health authority in Srifa, Southern governorate, killing one doctor and wounding five others.
“On the same day, another doctor was killed in Toul, Nabatiyeh governorate, while helping victims following an attack,” OCHA said.