The Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, reported this Monday of the death “a few seconds ago” of a second indonesian blue helmetor in Lebanon during an attack on a convoy.
“In addition to the attack that occurred yesterday , A few minutes ago there was another attack on a convoy in which a man died. second Indonesian military officer”, he advanced in statements to the press in Madrid.
He also expressed “enormous concern” about the situation in the south of the country, where they are deployed almost 700 Spanish soldiers in the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL). He explained that, despite the seriousness of the situation, the blue helmets continue to organize convoys and the first of the vehicles of one of those patrols was hit today.
Regarding the Spanish contingent, Robles called to wait for the decisions made by the United Nationswhich he asked to inform political leaders that the safety of the 10,000 blue helmets deployed in the area must be guaranteed.
With this Monday’s attack There are now two Indonesian blue helmets killed in Lebanon. Last night another Indonesian soldier was killed by a shell explosion at a UNIFIL base near Adchit Al Qusayr, while another was seriously injured.
The latter is found in “critical” conditionsaid Robles, who recalled that the Indonesian contingent is under Spanish command at the Miguel de Cervantes base, near Marjayou.
Los Spaniards are going out of their way to help Indonesianshighlighted Robles, who insisted that the situation is of “total concern.” In this way, he urged the United Nations to demand that Israel and, where appropriate, the Shiite group Hezbollah as well, the end of the attacks.
“This situation that is occurring is very serious from all UNIFIL points of view, what is a peace mission and, therefore, it must be respected always and in any case,” he argued. A few weeks ago Israel launched a military campaign in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, in which has successively bombed the country’s capital.
