Polish prosecutors to investigate attack on Polish UN soldiers in Lebanon


FILE PHOTO: UNIFIL vehicles drive on a main road in Qlayaa, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran continues, in Qlayaa, southern Lebanon, March 27, 2026. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher//File Photo

WARSAW, April ⁠2 (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors have opened ⁠an investigation into a bomb ‌attack that wounded a Polish soldier who was part of a U.N. peacekeeping patrol ​in Lebanon, the District ⁠Prosecutor's Office in ⁠Warsaw said on Thursday.

The March 29 ⁠bombing ‌was carried out in Bint Jubayl by an ⁠unidentified person using an improvised explosive ​device ‌on the route of the Polish ⁠convoy, ​prosecutors said in a statement. The statement said the bomb attack ⁠failed due to the HMMWV, ​or Humvee, vehicle's security measures.

The wounded soldier suffered injuries to his face ⁠and head, the office said.

The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, was first deployed in ​1978 and has ⁠remained through successive conflicts, including a ​2024 war during which ‌its positions came ​under fire repeatedly.

(Reporting by Karol Badohal; editing by Barbara Lewis)

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