One French soldier has been killed and three others wounded after a UN peacekeeping force came under attack in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
“Everything suggests that responsibility for this attack lies with Hezbollah,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media.
Macron identified the dead soldier as Staff Sergeant Florian Montorio of the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment from Montauban, serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). He added that three of Montorio’s “comrades in arms were injured and evacuated” after the attack near the southern Lebanese village of Ghandouriyeh.
“The nation bows in respect and extends its support to the families of our soldiers and to all our military personnel engaged for peace in Lebanon,” he said.
