Two United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana were critically wounded after missiles struck their base in southern Lebanon on Friday.
The attack occurred as cross-border hostilities intensified between Israel and Hezbollah following the regional war’s expansion into Lebanon earlier this week.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that several Ghanaian members of the UN peacekeeping force were wounded in the strike.
The report said the soldiers were injured when their position in the southern Lebanese town of Qawzah came under attack.
Ghana’s military confirmed that the battalion headquarters serving under the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was struck by two missiles.
The military said two soldiers were critically injured in the blasts, while another peacekeeper suffered severe psychological trauma.
It added that the officers’ mess facility at the base was also hit and burned down completely.
Neither Lebanese state media nor Ghanaian authorities identified the source of the attack on the peacekeeping position.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned what he described as Israeli attacks across Lebanon, accusing Israel of striking the UN peacekeeping mission.
He said the assaults had escalated to the point of directly targeting the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
The UN mission has long served as a fragile buffer along the tense frontier separating Israel and Lebanon.
In recent months, UN peacekeepers had been assisting the Lebanese army in dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure near the Israeli border.
Those operations followed the 2024 war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, which left parts of southern Lebanon scarred and tense.
Despite its longstanding presence, the UN mission plans to withdraw all troops from Lebanon by mid-2027.