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\u2022 UN official says Israeli forces destroy 17 surveillance cameras linked agency\u2019s office in Naqura
\u2022 Indonesia receives bodies of three peacekeepers slain by Israel<\/p>\n
BEIRUT: Israel\u2019s military renewed its strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday, severely damaging buildings and a major hospital, as international tensions escalated over the safety of United Nations peacekeepers caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n
As Indonesia received the bodies of three of its UN peacekeepers killed while deployed in Lebanon, a UN security official told AFP<\/em> that Israeli forces destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to the UNIFIL main headquarters in Naqura.<\/p>\n The bodies of the three Indonesian men arrived in Jakarta on Saturday. Their flag-draped coffins were carried into an airport hall on the shoulders of uniformed comrades for a ceremony attended by President Prabowo Subianto.<\/p>\n Family members wept over the coffins, each fronted by a photograph of the dead soldier in a gold frame.<\/p>\n The fatalities occurred in two separate incidents over the past week. One Indonesian peacekeeper died March 29 when a projectile exploded in southern Lebanon, an attack a UN security source attributed to Israeli tank fire. A day later, two more died after an explosion struck a UNIFIL logistics convoy.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were really sad and regretful, because this is a UN troop, a peacekeeping troop, not deployed for war,\u201d Iskandarudin, the 60-year-old father of fallen soldier Zulmi Aditya Iskandar, told reporters.<\/p>\n In addition to the fatalities, three more Indonesian peacekeepers were wounded Friday afternoon in a blast inside a UN facility near Odaisseh. While the UN Information Centre in Jakarta said the origin of the explosion remains unknown, the Israeli military accused Hezbollah of firing a rocket that landed in the outpost.<\/p>\n \u201cRepeated attacks or incidents of this kind are unacceptable,\u201d the Indonesian foreign ministry said in a statement. \u201cRegardless of their cause, these events underscore the urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces amid an increasingly dangerous conflict situation.\u201d<\/p>\n The Indonesian government urged the UN Security Council to investigate the events and immediately convene a meeting of troop-contributing countries.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the UN peacekeeping force reported increasing damage to its infrastructure. The UN security official said 17 headquarters cameras were destroyed by the Israeli army within 24 hours.<\/p>\n Earlier in the week, UNIFIL spokeswoman Kandice Ardiel noted that Israeli soldiers were conducting demolitions in Naqura, adding that the blasts caused damage to UNIFIL\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n In Tyre, the Israeli army struck three buildings it had warned people to evacuate, according to Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n