Ghana peacekeeping battalion HQ hit by missile attacks in Lebanon

The headquarters of Ghana’s United Nations peacekeeping battalion in Lebanon was hit by missile attacks on Friday, leaving two soldiers critically injured, Ghana’s armed forces says in a statement.

Lebanon was pulled into the war in the Middle East on Monday, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel that ignited a new Israeli offensive against the terror group.

Ghanaian soldiers are deployed as part of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.

The statement from Ghana’s armed forces does not say who fired the missiles, but it says Ghana’s foreign ministry has protested the incident at UN headquarters in New York.

In addition to the two critically injured soldiers, the statement says that another soldier “has been traumatised” while the officers’ mess facility was hit and burned down.