Ten European countries urge ‘safety’ of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

Ten European countries, including France and the United Kingdom, Tuesday urged each sides to guarantee the information of the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon aft three peacekeepers were killed successful caller days.

“We impulse each parties, under each circumstances, to guarantee the information and information of UNIFIL unit and premises, successful accordance with planetary law,” the overseas ministers of Greece, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom, arsenic well arsenic the European Union’s top diplomat, said successful a associated statement.

Here are the latest developments successful the Middle East war:

Pope hopes Trump will extremity war 
Pope Leo XIV said helium hoped US President Donald Trump was looking to extremity the war successful the Middle East and called for a halt to the violence.

“I’m told that President Trump precocious stated that helium would similar to extremity the war, hopefully he’s looking for an off-ramp, hopefully he’s looking for a way to alteration the magnitude of violence, of bombing,” the pope told journalists.

Strikes successful Beirut
Lebanon said Israeli strikes deed adjacent Beirut’s main airdrome road.

One strike deed a gathering aft Israel’s subject warned it would strike a “Hezbollah facility” there.

The roadworthy is the main means of accessing the country’s lone planetary rider facility.

Lebanon meantime denounced what it called Israel’s plans for “a caller concern of Lebanese territory” aft Israel said it would found a “security zone” successful the country.

Netanyahu vows to ‘crush’ Iran 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would property up with its subject run against Tehran.

“The run is not over,” helium said successful a televised statement. “We will proceed to crush the terror regime.”

Iran has ‘will’ to extremity war
Iran has the “necessary will” to extremity the war with the United States and Israel, President Masoud Pezeshkian said, stressing that Tehran was seeking guarantees the struggle would not flare up again.

The remark — which boosted markets successful the United States and led lipid prices to autumn — came aft a time of dense strikes connected Iran and followed a tough warning from the almighty Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to retaliate against starring US tech firms such arsenic Google, Meta and Apple from Wednesday if much Iranian leaders were killed successful “targeted assassinations”.

Tehran blasts
An AFP writer heard a bid of explosions successful cardinal Tehran, arsenic US-Israeli strikes wore connected into their 5th week. AFP journalists besides confirmed that aerial defences had been activated implicit the capital, including successful the north.

UN slams Israel decease penalty
The United Nations rights main slammed the Israeli parliament’s support of a “deeply discriminatory” caller decease punishment measure for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, warning that applying it connected occupied Palestinian territory “would represent a war crime”.

Canada denounces ‘illegal invasion’
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced Israel’s deployment of troops against Hezbollah targets successful Lebanon arsenic an “illegal invasion” that violates its “integrity and sovereignty.”

Save fuel, EU says
The EU urged subordinate states to try to propulsion down home request for substance successful the look of surging vigor prices caused by the Middle East war.

Israel blamed for sidesplitting peacekeepers
A UN information source told AFP that Israeli occurrence had killed an Indonesian peacekeeper astatine the weekend, aft the UN unit said it was investigating the incident.

The source told AFP connected information of anonymity that grounds had been identified that the source of the occurrence connected Sunday was an Israeli tank.

Infantino connected Iran
FIFA president Gianni Infantino told AFP that Iran “will beryllium astatine the World Cup” and will play their radical matches successful the United States arsenic scheduled, contempt the Middle East war.

The war has thrown successful uncertainty Iran’s information astatine the World Cup, hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada from June 11.

Italy refusal
Italy precocious denied authorisation for some US craft headed to the Middle East connected a combat ngo to onshore astatine its Sigonella base, a defence ministry source and Italian media said.

Under the terms of agreements with the United States, some Italian bases tin beryllium used by US subject aircraft, but lone for logistical purposes, which was denied successful this lawsuit connected the grounds that there was not capable clip to get parliament’s approval.

Deadly Iraq strike
A strike successful western Iraq killed three fighters from the erstwhile paramilitary conjugation Hashed al-Shaabi, the confederation said successful a statement, blaming the US and Israel for the attack.

The alliance, besides known arsenic the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), is present portion of Iraq’s regular equipped forces though it besides contains pro-Iran factions.

Source: AFP