U.N. Expanded UNIFIL Mandate 20 Years Ago to Police Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire
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Updated · NPR · Sep 19
U.N. Expanded UNIFIL Mandate 20 Years Ago to Police Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire
3 articles · Updated · NPR · Sep 19
Summary
Twenty years ago, the U.N. broadened the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon's role in southern Lebanon to monitor compliance with a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The expanded mandate was aimed at tracking adherence to the truce along the tense frontier where Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah had been fighting.
UNIFIL's mission shift marked a longer-term international effort to stabilize southern Lebanon after repeated cross-border conflict involving the militant group founded in 1982.