{"id":27982,"date":"2026-03-07T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27982"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:47:51","slug":"ghana-peacekeeping-battalion-hit-by-missile-attacks-in-lebanon-ghana-army","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-peacekeeping-battalion-hit-by-missile-attacks-in-lebanon-ghana-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana peacekeeping battalion hit by missile attacks in Lebanon: Ghana Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headquarters of Ghana&#8217;s United \u200bNations (UN) peacekeeping battalion in Lebanon \u200cwas hit by missile attacks on Friday, leaving two soldiers critically \u200binjured, Ghana&#8217;s armed forces \u200bsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was pulled \u2060into the war in the \u200bMiddle East on Monday, when Hezbollah \u200bfired rockets at Israel that ignited a new Israeli offensive against the group.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian \u200bsoldiers are deployed as part \u200bof the UN Interim Force in Lebanon mission in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The statement \u200cfrom \u2060Ghana&#8217;s armed forces did not say who fired the missiles, but it said Ghana&#8217;s foreign \u200bministry \u200bhad protested \u2060the incident at UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200baddition to the two \u200bcritically \u2060injured soldiers, the statement said that another soldier &#8220;has been traumatised&#8221; \u2060while \u200bthe officers&#8217; mess \u200bfacility was hit and burned down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-27982","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ghanaian \u200bsoldiers are deployed as part \u200bof the UN Interim Force in Lebanon mission in Lebanon.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ghanaian \u200bsoldiers are deployed as part \u200bof the UN Interim Force in Lebanon mission in Lebanon.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27983,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27982\/revisions\/27983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}