Sites of fatal attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. north of Irish Area of Responsibility. Bani Hayyan, where two UN peacekeepers were killed and two injured in an explosion today, is roughly 15km northeast from Camp Shamrock, where roughly 300 Irish peacekeepers are stationed in the Irish Area of Responsibility (AOR).
UNIFIL said that a third peacekeeper was killed yesterday when a projectile struck a UNIFIL position near Adchit Al Qusayr, which is roughly 17km from Camp Shamrock, and just 3km north of Bani Hayyan.
Both incidents occurred within the wider UN-monitored zone in southern Lebanon, where Irish troops are deployed.
A UN battalion led by Irish officers operates Camp Shamrock near Bint Jbeil and two outposts called UNP 6-50 and UNP 6-52, near the border towns of Maroun El-Ras and Yaroun.
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