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Lebanon says 25 arrested after attack on UN peacekeepers

attack on a United Nations convoy the day before that wounded two peacekeepers, including the force's outgoing deputy commander.

blocked the road to the country's only international airport over a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing there.

    UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has demanded an investigation after one of its vehicles was set on fire during the incident, which wounded outgoing deputy force commander Chok Bahadur Dhakal, a Nepalese national who was heading home after ending his mission.

    AFP a second Nepalese peacekeeper was also wounded and hospitalised.

    vowed "the attackers will receive their punishment" and said "security forces will not be lenient with any party that tries to upset stability and civil peace", according to a statement from the presidency on X.

    Nawaf Salam strongly condemned the "criminal attack" and promised to arrest the perpetrators during a conversation with UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and UNIFIL Commander General Aroldo Lazaro.

    Hezbollah, but its television channel Al-Manar late Friday blamed unidentified "masked men".

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