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Israel takes UN peacekeeping chief on tour of Lebanon border

The Israeli military took UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix on a tour of the border area between Israel and Lebanon yesterday, Al Jazeera reports.

“We met with the commander of Northern Command General Ori Gordin who briefed [Lacroix] on the weapons and terror infrastructures that the [Israeli military] discovered in South Lebanon,” Amir Weissbrod, the deputy director general for the UN and International Organisations Division at the ministry, said in a post on X.

Weissbrod added that they “discussed ways to implement effectively resolution 1701” and visited the village of Metula to “witness firsthand the reality on the ground and the security challenges for the Israeli civilians in the towns and villages near the border”.

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