(21 Aug 2025)
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Deir Kifa, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
1. Various of French soldiers of the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Mission in Lebanon) boarding their armoured vehicle
2. Various of UNIFIL peacekeepers driving armoured vehicle
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Saluki Valley, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
3. UNIFIL peacekeeping force walking among bushes
4. Various of UN peacekeepers entering a damaged house and searching for booby traps
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Kafr Kila, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Arnaud de Coincy, commander of UNIFIL’s Force Commander Reserve:
"So we’re discovering all kinds of weapons, it can be a rocket launcher, it can be cannon, it could be a small arms, it can be mine, it can be IED (improvised explosive device). It can be a lot of ammunition and for sure by finding them it helps to restore peace and stability in south Lebanon."
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Saluki Valley, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
6. Tilt down from damaged rocket launcher to boxes of ammunition
7. Various of damaged rocket launcher
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Kafr Kila, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Arnaud de Coincy, commander of UNIFIL’s Force Commander Reserve:
“I think that currently the situation is most stable as I told you. But for sure I think that we still need UNIFIL and we really need UNIFIL to continue to support Lebanese army forces and also the Lebanese population in south Lebanon that definitely need us for continuing to restore stability, security and peace."
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Saluki Valley, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
9. Various of UN peacekeeper searching through ammunition boxes
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Saluki Valley, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
10. Various of UNIFIL peacekeepers driving armoured vehicle
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Kafr Kila, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Arnaud de Coincy, commander of UNIFIL’s Force Commander Reserve:
"I’m definitely convinced think that south Lebanon and Lebanese Army Forces still need us to support them on a daily basis. I really hope that we will have a renewal of the mandate at the end of August."
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Kafr Kila, Lebanon – 20 August 2025
12. Various of UN peacekeepers monitoring a mistral surface-to-air missile system
STORYLINE:
A convoy of armored vehicles carrying French peacekeepers barrels through the hills of southern Lebanon that were ground zero in last year’s bruising war between Israeli forces and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
The closer the convoy draws to the border, the emptier the villages become and the more buildings have been reduced to rubble.
Some are marked by tattered Lebanese flags, or flags bearing Hezbollah’s insignia of a defiantly raise fist brandishing a Kalashnikov.
From a UNIFIL base on a mountainside overlooking the village of Kafr Kila, the town below appears as a wasteland of crumpled concrete.
On an overlook point opposite the base, one of five points that Israeli forces are still occupying despite a ceasefire inked in November, bulldozers have cleared and leveled swathes of the hilltop.
Farther west along the border in the Saluki Valley, a goat herder tending his flock watches as UNIFIL peacekeepers trek up the steep wooded terrain on the opposite side of the road, while the buzz of an Israeli drone is audible overhead.
Less than 200 meters in, the peacekeepers find the first sign of what was once apparently a Hezbollah military camp – an artillery cannon tucked away in the trees.
An abandoned shack nearby is littered with blankets, playing cards and books.
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