A United Nations peacekeeper died on Thursday from wounds sustained the night before when shelling hit his base near Marjayoun in southeastern Lebanon, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Thursday.
Two other peacekeepers were injured and are receiving treatement at a medical facility in the UNIFIL base.
"The Serbian authorities have confirmed that the peacekeeper was a Serbian national who had received emergency medical care after his base came under attack. He was then helicoptered to a Beirut hospital where he died," the UN peacekeeping mission said in a statement.
"Deliberate attacks on peacekeepers are grave violations of international humanitarian law and of Security Council Resolution 1701, and may amount to war crimes," the statement added.
The attack follows several similar incidents in recent months, some of them fatal, since the outbreak of the Iran war and renewed clashes between Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Israel.
