The headquarters of Ghana’s United \u200bNations peacekeeping battalion in Lebanon \u200cwas hit by missile attacks on Friday, leaving two soldiers critically \u200binjured, Ghana’s armed forces \u200bsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n
Lebanon was pulled \u2060into the war in the \u200bMiddle East on Monday, when Hezbollah \u200bfired rockets at Israel that ignited a new Israeli offensive against the group.<\/p>\n
Ghanaian \u200bsoldiers are deployed as part \u200bof the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The statement \u200cfrom \u2060Ghana’s armed forces did not say who fired the missiles, but it said Ghana’s foreign \u200bministry \u200bhad protested \u2060the incident at U.N. headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n
In \u200baddition to the two \u200bcritically \u2060injured soldiers, the statement said that another soldier “has been traumatised” \u2060while \u200bthe officers’ mess \u200bfacility was hit and burned down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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