BEIRUT, Nov 7 (KUNA) -- The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon (UNIFIL) declared on Thursday that five UNIFIL personnel were wounded in an air strike that hit a convoy near Sidon.
The UNIFIL said in a statement that a convoy of peacekeepers, who have recently arrived in the country, was hit during a drone raid nearby. Five of the peacekeepers were wouneded and received treatment instantly, it said.
Medics of the Lebanese Red Cross treated the injured UNIFIL personnel on the field, it said, indicating that they moved on after receiving the treatment.
Earlier today, the Lebanese Army declared that three people died and seven local and international military personnel received injuries in an Israeli air strike targeting a car near Sidon, a port city located some 40 kilometers south of Beirut.
The army said in a statement the Israeli aircraft targeted the car as it was passing through a checkpoint manned by the army just outside the southern city if Sidon. Three Lebanese who were in the car died and three soldiers were wounded, the army statement said, adding that four members of the Malaysian force serving with the UN peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) were injured in the attack.
The military statement indicated that the peacekeepers were injured because the air strike occurred while they were passing through the checkpoint.
Meanwhile, the official National News Agency reported that corpses of two perished persons were discovered in Burj Al-Molouk in the south. Elsewhere, the Israeli aircraft raided and demolished a house in Kfar Rumman and the relics sector in the coastal city of Tyre.
The country since September 23 has been witnessing daily Israeli attacks from the air, on the ground and from the sea. Many people have perished amid wide-scale destruction in the south, east and the capital's suburbs. (end) ayb.rk