Austria's FM says EU won't withdraw its UN troops from Lebanon
Source:Reuters
Author:Marija Šestan
LEBANON ISRAEL CONFLICT
epa11566889 A soldier of the UN peacekeeping mission, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), keeps watch from Marjayoun area opposite Lebanese Khiyam town and Israeli Metula settlement, near the Lebanon-Israel border in southern Lebanon, 27 August 2024. Hezbollah announced in a statement on 25 August that the group launched an aerial operation with numerous drones targeting Israeli territory as the 'phase one' of a retaliatory attack for the killing of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr on 30 July in Beirut. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said some 100 fighter jets struck and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels, aimed for immediate fire toward northern and central Israel. EPA/STR
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ZAGREB, 16 Oct (Hina) - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg was quoted by Reuters as saying on Wednesday that European Union countries that contribute to the U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL in Lebanon have no intention of pulling back from the south of the country despite Israeli calls to do so.