Irish peacekeepers in crossfire as Lebanon situation 'tense and unpredictable'

Tánaiste Micheál Martin with Lt Col Stephen Mac Eoin at Camp Shamrock in Debel on Sunday. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Shelling, air strikes, and machine-gun fire — some munitions striking within 100m of Irish peacekeepers — are being fired daily in a ‘tit-for-tat conflict’ between Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Israel.

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Mac Eoin said there are now repeated exchanges of fire north and south across the blue-line frontier between Hezbollah militants in Southern Lebanon and Israeli defence forces across the border.