Ghanaian UN peacekeeping troops hit by two missiles in Lebanon as Israel-Hezbollah clashes intensify
Two Ghanaian soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were critically injured after the Ghanaian Battalion Headquarters in southern Lebanon came under two missile attacks, the Ghana Armed Forces said.
In a public statement, the military said the strikes hit between 5.45pm and 5.52pm local time, March 6th, in what it described as fallout from the ongoing exchanges between the Israeli military and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
A third soldier was “traumatised”, according to the statement. The Ghana Armed Forces said the battalion’s Officers’ Mess was also hit and “burnt down completely”.
The injured soldiers are being treated at a Level One Medical Bunker and were reported to be stable, with arrangements underway to evacuate them to the UNIFIL Headquarters Referral Hospital, the statement said.
The Ghana Armed Forces urged the public to remain calm, adding that troops are currently safe in underground bunkers amid what it described as a fragile security situation.
It said the Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has protested the incident at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and called on parties to the conflict to uphold their responsibilities to protect peacekeepers deployed in the area.
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