France's foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday he'd requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following "the extremely serious incidents" targeting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon.
Two were killed on Monday after an explosion from an unknown origin destroyed their vehicle near Bani Hayyan, the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL said in a statement. Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast.
Earlier, another Indonesian soldier was killed overnight Sunday into Monday when a projectile exploded by one of the group's positions by the village of Adchit al-Qusayr. Another peacekeeper was critically injured at the time.
The death on Sunday was the first among the UN's peacekeeping force in the new war between Israel and Hezbollah which erupted on March 2.
"These are two separate incidents and we are investigating them as two separate incidents," said UNIFIL's spokesperson Kandice Ardiel..
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said attacks on peacekeepers are grave violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.
"We strongly condemn these unacceptable incidents - peacekeepers must never be a target," UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix told reporters in a briefing on Monday.
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