{"id":50234,"date":"2024-03-31T19:33:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50234"},"modified":"2024-03-31T19:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:33:34","slug":"un-says-four-staff-wounded-in-south-lebanon-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50234","title":{"rendered":"UN says four staff wounded in south Lebanon blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United Nations peacekeepers said three military observers and a translator were wounded Saturday in a blast in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah militants trade frequent cross-border fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The military observers, from Australia, Chile and Norway, and a Lebanese language assistant had been on foot patrol around the so-called Blue Line &#8212; the UN-demarcated border between Israel and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The four &#8220;were injured when an explosion occurred near their location&#8221;, according to Andrea Tenenti, a spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel were working for the UN Truce Supervision Organization, which supports the UN peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n<p>They were &#8220;evacuated for medical treatment&#8221; and were in a stable condition, Tenenti said, adding the United Nations was &#8220;investigating the origin of the explosion&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations peacekeepers said three military observers and a translator were wounded Saturday in a blast in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah militants trade frequent cross-border fire. The military observers, from Australia, Chile and Norway, and a Lebanese language assistant had been on foot patrol around the so-called Blue Line &#8212; the UN-demarcated border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[993],"class_list":["post-50234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-un-says-four-staff-wounded-in-south-lebanon-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}