UN warns of dangerous Lebanon–Israel escalation after attack on UNIFIL

The attack carried out Friday night against a position of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which seriously wounded Ghanaian peacekeepers, combined with massive strikes in the south of the country, has rekindled the U.N.’s fears of a new spiral of violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border.In New York, the United Nations reacted with concern, warning of the consequences of a military escalation in an already deeply unstable region.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres firmly condemned the attack on the peacekeepers, recalling that the forces deployed in Lebanon operate under a Security Council mandate and represent one of the pillars of the international architecture stabilizing Lebanon’s southern border.“The secretary-general condemns the incident that occurred Friday, March 6, which injured three Ghanaian...