Eight UNIFIL peacekeepers injured in southern Lebanon rocket attack
Eight Austrian soldiers belonging to the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission were injured by a rocket strike in southern Lebanon, which UNIFIL said was likely fired by Hezbollah.
Eight peacekeepers belonging to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon were injured on Tuesday after a rocket hit the mission’s headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon.
Austria’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday said that eight of its soldiers in the UNIFIL mission were lightly injured by the rocket strike. There are an estimated 149 Austrian troops in UNIFIL out of a total force of 10,017 peacekeepers from 48 countries.
"Eight Austrian army soldiers from the UNIFIL contingent were injured by a rocket hit in Camp Naqoura at 12:58 p.m. today. None of them were seriously injured. The injuries were minor and superficial," Austrian Defense Ministry spokesperson Michael Bauer said on Tuesday.
UNIFIL said in a statement on X on Tuesday that the rocket attack, which set a vehicle workshop on fire, was fired from the north of its Naqoura headquarters, “likely by Hezbollah or an affiliated group.”
