#NewYork direct to #Beirut for Polish Cargo SkyTaxi #SPMRG same 767 converted freighter we saw in November. We only get 2 rare cargo trips from the #USA to #Lebanon nonstop, though this trip started in #Guatemala 🤔 #UNIFIL only has 2 Guatemalan troops

Beirut: Hezbollah militants detained two trucks of the Spanish batt in UNIFIL while they were passing through the Shahdaa square at the Dahiya district, a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital.
In 2022 they killed an #Irish soldier.
Lebanese army freed them today.
#Ireland

Oproep #Veteranen #Haarlem
Sinds kort komt een kleine groep Haarlemse veteranen van jong tot oud, van Nieuw Guinea tot Bosnië en van UNIFIL tot Mali, met enige regelmaat bij elkaar in Sportcafé Haarlem, het lokale veteranencafé.
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Voorafgaand aan de dodenherdenking in het Raadhuis van Gemeente Aalsmeer, met goede speech van burgemeester Gido Oude Kotte, mocht ik iets vertellen bij Radio Aalsmeer als UNIFIL veteraan…

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa, as UNIFIL vehicles patrol the roads along the Lebanese border with #Israel .

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Bei #UNIFIL nutzt die #BundeswehrimEinsatz unter anderem ein Speedboot zum Transfer auf See, um Personal der Maritime Taskforce zwischen dem Hafen von Naqoura und der Fregatte „Brandenburg“ schnell sowie effizient zu verbringen.

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Bei #UNIFIL trainierte die Besatzung der Fregatte „Brandenburg“ der #BundeswehrimEinsatz mit der libanesischen Air Force eine Winsch-Übung. Dabei ist von Seiten der Schiffs- und Hubschrauberbesatzung höchste Konzentration und Erfahrung erforderlich.

Beirut: Hezbollah militants detained two trucks of the Spanish battalion in UNIFIL while they were passing through the Shahdaa square at the entrance to the Dahiya district, a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital.

Lebanese army soldiers were sent to rescue the trucks.

Yesterday saw the Ministerial Review of the 124 Inf Bn prior to deployment to UNIFIL.

An Tánaiste and Minister for Defence, Mr Micheál Martin T.D., accompanied by the Chief of Staff Séan Clancy, in reviewing the men and women of the 124 Bn prior to their departure.

An excellent…

The #Lebanon dilemma – a new perspective

Several representatives of #UN member states that have been proposed for UNIFIL missions have met with #US officials and military personnel to discuss the needed preparations to allow an effective service of the units that would be…

A pleasure to welcome French foreign affairs minister Stéphane Séjourné to UNIFIL today. We discussed the current situation and I thanked him for France's commitment and contribution of nearly 700 peacekeepers working to restore security and stability along the Blue Line.

Since 7 October 2023, Israel has endured hundred of daily attacks from Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Palestinian factions in Lebanon.

South Lebanon where #Irish UNIFIL troops are based is supposed to be demilitarised, it is not.

Here terrorist target Israeli homes in Metulla.