After being blamed, Hezbollah claims it wasn’t behind deadly attack on French UN observer

Hezbollah says it denies any involvement in the deadly attack on United Nations observers in southern Lebanon this morning, after the terror group was blamed for the incident.

UNIFIL said that a patrol clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the village of Ghanduriyah came under “small-arms fire from non-state actors,” resulting in one observer killed and three others wounded, including two seriously.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the attack killed a French soldier and that it was apparently carried out by Hezbollah. UNIFIL said that an “initial assessment indicates the fire came from non-state actors (allegedly Hizbullah).”

The terror group in a statement says it “calls for caution in issuing judgments and responsibilities regarding the incident,” and that it “expresses surprise at the [parties] that rushed to throw accusations arbitrarily.”