In response to a question on the situation in southern and UNIFIL’s activities, UNIFIL Spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said that “UNIFIL’s mandate is to prevent hostile activities and to preserve stability in southern Lebanon.”

“It is part of our job to ensure that there are no weapons or rockets in our area of operations, and that is done in coordination with the Lebanese Armed Force (LAF),” he noted.

“In addition, we do have counter rocket operations, together with patrolling our area of operations, and these are regular activities. We are implementing our mandate and these activities are part of this implementation,” the UNIFIL Spokesperson concluded.