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UN peacekeepers will remain in Lebanon despite Israeli calls for them to withdraw, said the head of UN peacekeeping operations on Monday, as the UN Security Council criticized recent attacks on the forces. “A decision was made that UNIFIL will currently stay in all its positions, in spite of the calls that were made by the Israeli forces to vacate the positions that were in the vicinity of the blue line,” said the head of UN peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix. UNIFIL is the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. They have been monitoring the border area between Israel and Lebanon f…

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