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Launch trajectory shows Hezbollah fired mortars that struck UNIFIL post, IDF says
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
An armored vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) moves past destroyed buildings along a road in the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
The IDF says the mortars that struck a UN position in southern Lebanon, killing a peacekeeper, were launched by Hezbollah.
Overnight, the IDF says, it identified several mortar launches “from the Qotrani area, carried out by the Hezbollah terror organization, which fell inside a UNIFIL outpost in the Dibbin area in southern Lebanon.”
UNIFIL announced earlier that one of its observers was killed and two were wounded by the mortar strikes, but did not assign blame.
“An examination of the launch trajectory clearly indicates that the fire was carried out by the Hezbollah terror organization,” the IDF says.
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