{"id":11001,"date":"2026-03-09T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/11001\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:55:29","slug":"ghana-calls-on-commonwealth-to-condemn-attack-on-its-peacekeepers-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/11001\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana calls on Commonwealth to condemn attack on its peacekeepers in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ghana has called on the Commonwealth to condemn Friday&#8217;s missile attack on its United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon which injured four of its soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa did not say who was responsible when speaking at a Commonwealth meeting on Sunday but said the bombing was &#8220;an attack on every principle that the UN Charter exists to defend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel has been striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, after the Iranian-backed Shia group said it launched rockets and drones at the Israeli city of Haifa last week to avenge the killing of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All the injured Ghanaian soldiers are now in a stable condition, its army has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three had minor injuries and the one who was critically injured had &#8220;successfully undergone surgery and [was] responding to treatment&#8221;, it added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lebanon&#8217;s President Joseph Aoun has blamed Israel for the strike, but Ghanaian officials have avoided mentioning who they think was behind it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We urge the Commonwealth to roundly condemn this attack and demand immediate investigations,&#8221; Ablakwa said when addressing his Commonwealth counterparts at a gathering in London on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ghanaian soldiers were serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) when their base was hit Friday shortly before 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Social media was awash with videos showing significant damage and fire burning battalion facilities accommodating Ghana&#8217;s peacekeeping troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ghana&#8217;s foreign ministry has also formally lodged a protest with UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres over the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Guterres has said that &#8220;those responsible must be held accountable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ghana is one of the long-standing troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping operations in Lebanon, where its soldiers serve as part of a multinational task force.<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<img alt=\"A woman looking at her mobile phone and the graphic BBC News Africa\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"295\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c7a608b642136b2879dce57f6fb5d461.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Getty Images\/BBC]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bbcafrica.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBCAfrica.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBCAfrica.com<\/a> for more news from the African continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCAfrica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@BBCAfrica;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@BBCAfrica<\/a>, on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCnewsafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Africa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Africa<\/a> or on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bbcafrica;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">bbcafrica<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC Africa podcasts<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana has called on the Commonwealth to condemn Friday&#8217;s missile attack on its United Nations peacekeepers in southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6304,3867,6299,6302,93,6298,6300,973,6301,6303,1243],"class_list":{"0":"post-11001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-commonwealth","9":"tag-getty-images","10":"tag-ghana","11":"tag-ghanaian-soldiers","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-missile-attack","14":"tag-samuel-okudzeto-ablakwa","15":"tag-southern-lebanon","16":"tag-stable-condition","17":"tag-the-commonwealth","18":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116199563095431042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}