Israeli tank shells wound UN peacekeeper in Lebanon

BEIRUT, July 16 (Reuters) An Indian soldier who is part of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon was today wounded when two Israeli tank shells hit his position in the border village of Houla, a UN spokesman said.

Another base run by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in a southern village near Bint Jbeil was also hit, but no one was wounded.

''The wounded soldier was evacuated to a medical facility,'' spokesman Milos Strugar told Reuters.

UNFIL was created in 1978, after Israel's first major incursion into southern Lebanon and has been there ever since.

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