Lebanon’s military court billed seven people over a strike in December 2022 that eliminated an Irish UN peacekeeper as well as wounded three others.
The State Commissioner to the Armed Force Court Fadi Akiki billed a detainee with murder, as well as 6 others with intimidating with an unlawful tool and also destroying the lorry of the UN Meantime Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Xinhua information company.
Irish soldier Sean Rooney was eliminated and three others were hurt on the evening of December 13 in Al-Aqbieh, simply outside the area of procedures of the UN Meantime Pressure in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
UNIFIL was developed in 1978 under the UN Protection Council Resolutions 425 as well as 426 to validate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and bring back peace and also security in the region.
Currently, it has around 10,000 peacekeepers from 48 nations.
Last Updated: 6 January 2023
