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Chinese observer to UN killed in Israeli airstrike in
Lebanon
BEIRUT, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese UN observer was
among the four UN peacekeepers killed in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon
on Tuesday night.
The body of the Chinese victim, whose name is Du Zhaoyu,
has been recovered, said sources of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL). The UN observer from China was part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission
in south Lebanon.
4 UN observers killed in Israeli
attack in Lebanon
UNITED NATIONS, July 25 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli air strike
killed four United Nations military observers at their base in southern Lebanon
on Tuesday, the United Nations said.
"This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long
established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiam occurred despite personal
assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would
be spared Israeli fire," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement
issued at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Israeli airstrike destroys UN base in
Lebanon
BEIRUT, July 25 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli airstrike destroyed
a base of the UN observer force in south Lebanon on Tuesday night, causing
casualties, local media reported.
The reports cited Milos Strugar, spokesman of the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), as saying that an Israeli bomb
directly hit the base of the United Nations Observer Group in the southern
Lebanese border town of Khiam.
Five UN peacekeeping soldiers killed
in Israeli strike
CAIRO, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Five Indian UN peacekeeping
soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon on Tuesday night,
the pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
