UNIFIL patrol comes under fire in southern Lebanon

UNIFIL said on Tuesday that ‘about a dozen rounds’ were fired at one of its patrols, without identifying the assailants.

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France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot speaks to the press at the end of the second day of the G7 foreign ministers summit at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris on November 10, 2026 [AFP]

The foreign ministers backed “the need to move quickly toward a new security architecture”, Barrot said after the group met in Paris.

However, the French foreign minister acknowledged that there had been no breakthrough regarding replacing UNIFIL, which comprises some 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries.

The UN Security Council last year voted, under US pressure, to end UNIFIL’s mandate on December 31, 2026. Lebanese officials have called for the mandate to be extended.