UN Security Council To Vote On Embattled Lebanon Peacekeepers

One of the armoured vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers patrols in the Buwayda region of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon by the border with Israel on July 4, 2025. (Credit: AFP)

The United Nations Security Council will vote Monday on the future of the blue helmet peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon that has faced US and Israeli opposition.

The Council will vote on a French-drafted compromise that would keep the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), deployed in 1978 to separate Israel and Lebanon, in place for one more year while it prepares to withdraw.