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Jean-Pierre LaCroix, head of UN peacekeeping operations has said there's reason to believe that some Israeli firing on UN positions in southern Lebanon has been direct. He claimed the UNIFIL force was determined to remain in place, to help protect the civilian population and provide impartial reporting on the war between Israel and Hezbollah. He added that abandoning UN bases would allow them to be taken over by others. The Israeli fire on UN positions has prompted international condemnation. The IDF has acknowledged hitting a UNIFIL post, saying it was firing at a nearby threat.

Also in the programme: Israeli parliament moves to ban a United Nations agency; and South Korean author Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Joining presenter Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are Nataliya Vasilyeva, a Russian journalist, formerly Moscow, Istanbul and Jerusalem correspondent for the Daily Telegraph newspaper and Mark Kersten, Assistant Professor of human rights, law and international justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, in Canada.

(Photo: UN peacekeepers in Marjayoun, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon October 11, 2024. CREDIT: REUTERS/Karamallah Daher)