PARIS: Israel’s military acknowledged Wednesday that its tanks struck a UN base in southern Lebanon on March 6, injuring Ghanaian peacekeepers. A Western military source told Reuters on Tuesday that preliminary findings of an internal UN investigation suggested Israel was behind the attack.The United Nations peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL is deployed to southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the border with Israel. In a statement to Reuters, Israel’s military acknowledged that its soldiers were behind the incident, but said they had responded to a Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack that slightly wounded two of its soldiers. “…The IDF regrets this incident and has expressed its apologies through appropriate channels to Ghana and the United Nations,” the statement said.(This is a Reuters story)
