The thud of a rocket landing sounded nearby, but Warrant Officer II Maxwell Kyei-Mensah of the Ghanaian Battalion of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) did not flinch.
“We should keep moving,” the 47-year-old shouted across the tarmac of a forward operating base in southern Lebanon on the front line of Israel’s worsening conflict with Hezbollah, the Shia militant and political group. “We don’t want to get stuck in the bunkers all day.”
The Ghanaians have been part of the UN peacekeeping force in the area since the 1970s. Since the end of the last war between Israel and Lebanon, in 2006, the level of violence around the “Blue Line”, the heavily militarised border, has ebbed and flowed.
Kyei-Mensah returns to an armoured personnel carrier after a stop at a checkpoint near the village of Alma El Chaab
OLIVER MARSDEN
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