Oct 14, Kathmandu- The war between Israel and Lebanon has escalated lately. As the war between Israel and Hamas has now expanded with the Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, there is growing concern that Lebanon will become another Gaza. Powerful missiles are raining down. Since the last Gaza war, Hezbollah has fired more than 9,000 missiles into Israel and made about 70,000 Israelis homeless.

However, the peacekeeping forces stationed on the border between Israel and Lebanon have been affected by this war. Nepali soldiers are also employed in that list. According to sources, there are 877 more Nepalese peacekeepers on the border between Israel and Lebanon. But as the war escalated, their security became a question.

Recently, 15 peacekeepers were injured in an Israeli attack. The gate of the UNIFIL office of the peacekeeping force has been broken. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also warned the United Nations to withdraw the peacekeeping force.

Hezbollah said its fighters were fighting the Israeli army at close range in a village near the border. On the other hand, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) also said that two of its soldiers were seriously injured in the battle. According to the IDF, it has attacked almost 200 Hezbollah addresses in the past 24 hours alone. Red Cross volunteers were also injured in one of these incidents. The volunteers were searching for wounded and casualties in a building attacked by Israel. The IDF has accused Hezbollah of using ambulances to transport weapons and fighters. But he gave no evidence.

Last Thursday, two Indonesian peacekeepers were wounded in the shooting incident from an Israeli tank. On Friday, the IDF claimed responsibility for another incident in which two Sri Lankan soldiers were injured at Nakura. However, no information has been made public about how many Nepalis were or were not among the injured. The Nepali Army has not given any public response.

Forty countries, including the UK, have strongly condemned the attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. By deploying more than 6,000 peacekeepers in 11 different missions in the world this year, Nepal has become the number one country in providing troops for peacekeeping. It is said that the main responsibility of the peacekeepers deployed in conflict areas is to protect the common people and prevent the conflict from escalating. But while being number one in this way, the risk to the Nepalese peacekeeping force deployed in war-torn areas is also increasing.