{"id":10567,"date":"2024-10-14T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2024-10-14T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:09:11","slug":"eu-slams-unacceptable-israel-attacks-on-lebanon-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/eu-slams-unacceptable-israel-attacks-on-lebanon-peacekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU slams &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; Israel attacks on Lebanon peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The European Union&#8217;s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Monday denounced as &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; a series of Israeli attacks that have injured United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 27 (EU) members agreed on asking (the) Israelis to stop attacking UNIFIL,&#8221; Borrell told reporters ahead of a meeting of the bloc&#8217;s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. &#8220;It&#8217;s completely unacceptable attacking United Nations troops,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least five peacekeepers have been wounded in recent days as Israel targets Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>UNIFIL, a mission of about 9,500 troops of various nationalities created following Israel&#8217;s 1978 invasion of Lebanon, has accused the Israeli military of &#8220;deliberately&#8221; firing on its positions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many European members are participating in this mission,&#8221; Borrell noted. &#8220;Their work is very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on UN chief Antonio Guterres Sunday to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of &#8220;harm&#8217;s way&#8221;, saying Hezbollah was using them as &#8220;human shields&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>UNIFIL has refused to leave its positions.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Monday denounced as &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; a series of Israeli attacks that have injured United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. &#8220;The 27 (EU) members agreed on asking (the) Israelis to stop attacking UNIFIL,&#8221; Borrell told reporters ahead of a meeting of the bloc&#8217;s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10568,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions\/10568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}