A group of UN peacekeepers wounded in a blast Lebanese officials blamed on Israel in southern Lebanon’s Rmeish on Saturday were hit by a Hezbollah roadside bomb, according to the IDF.
Shortly after the March 30 incident, the IDF denied carrying out any strikes in the Rmeish area. Hezbollah-linked media and security sources speaking to Reuters had claimed that the IDF carried out a drone strike on a vehicle with four UN employees.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, says that according to the latest information available to the military, the UN peacekeepers were wounded by “an explosive device that had been planted by Hezbollah in the area.”
According to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, the four observers were carrying out a foot patrol, and were not in a vehicle as the initial reports suggested. UNTSO said they were wounded after a “shell exploded near their location.”
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