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Anonymousabout 3 hours ago

A French UNIFIL peacekeeper was killed in an ambush near Ghandouriyeh, Lebanon on April 18, 2026, two days into a US-brokered ceasefire, with President Macron blaming Hezbollah and raising accusations of human shield tactics. The incident has drawn France directly into a war that has killed over 2,300 people and displaced 1.2 million, while raising contested legal questions about human shielding under international law and threatening both the fragile ceasefire and UNIFIL's final mandate period.