The meeting in Beirut comes days after four Italian soldiers were injured after two rockets exploded at a UNIFIL base in Shama, apparently fired by Hezbollah or one of its affiliate groups.
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00:00The EU foreign policy chief has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the strong
00:07support of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.
00:11Josep Borrell held talks with UNIFIL's head of mission and force commander Lieutenant
00:15General Aroldo Lazaro during his visit to the Lebanese capital on Sunday.
00:21That meeting comes days after four Italian soldiers were injured after two rockets exploded
00:26at a UNIFIL base in Sharma, apparently fired by Hezbollah.
00:30Borrell said that attacks on UNIFIL personnel are completely unacceptable and said the peacekeepers
00:35play a key role in an increasingly challenging environment.
00:39Meanwhile Israel continued air strikes on Beirut into Sunday night after Hezbollah fired
00:44around 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel.
00:49At least seven people were wounded in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages
00:53on Israel in months.
00:55Today's attacks in northern and central Israel came in response to deadly Israeli strikes
01:00in central Beirut on Saturday.
01:02Meanwhile Lebanon's military says an Israeli strike on an army center in the southwest
01:07killed one soldier and wounded 18 others.
01:10Israel's military expressed regret and said its operations are directed solely against
01:15Hezbollah militants.