June 4, 2026
(FILES) United Nations peacekeepers drive in vehicles of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) past destroyed buildings while patroling in Lebanon’s southern village of Kfar Kila close to the border with Israel on April 6, 2025. The Israeli military on October 27, 2025, accused UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of shooting down one of its drones a day earlier during an intelligence-gathering mission. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
A United Nations peacekeeper has been killed in Lebanon, the force and Serbian authorities said Thursday, after a base was hit in the south where Israel and Hezbollah are fighting.
The death brings to seven the number of UNIFIL peacekeepers killed since the latest conflict erupted in March.
“A UNIFIL peacekeeper died early this morning from critical injuries sustained when mortar shells struck his position,” a statement from the force said, adding that two other Blue Helmets were wounded in the incident on Wednesday night.
