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Israel urged to stop shooting at and ensure safety of U.N. peacekeepers

The U.N. and dozens of nations demanded Israel stop firing at U.N. peacekeepers while attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon.

UNIFIL peacekeepers training in Lebanon in 2013
UNIFIL peacekeepers training in Lebanon in 2013 (AN/)

Two Israeli military tanks crossed the Blue Line and entered a U.N. peacekeeping base at Ramyah, Lebanon, in what the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon calls a "shocking" violation of international law.

UNIFIL, which monitors and patrols the boundary it drew up between Lebanon and Israel known as the Blue Line, said on Sunday it observed three platoons of the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, crossing into Lebanon.

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