Two Ghanaian peacekeepers critically wounded in missile attack on UN base in Lebanon

According to Reuters, 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 said in a statement. The soldiers are deployed as part of the UNIFIL mission in the region. The attack comes as Lebanon was pulled into the wider Middle East conflict on Monday, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel, igniting a new Israeli offensive against the group.

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.