Three senior UN officials have briefed an emergency session of the Security Council on the expansion of the war in the Middle East into southern Lebanon where three Indonesian Peacekeepers were recently killed with serious injury to several other blue helmets. The origin of the attacks on the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon have yet to be determined but comes in the context of a continued Israeli expansion of military operations in southern Lebanon in an effort to quell rocket fire from militant group Hezbollah, that is targeting Israel in solidarity with Iran. Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier warned that attacks on peacekeepers were grave violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

<p>Three senior UN officials have briefed an emergency session of the Security Council on the expansion of the war in the Middle East into southern Lebanon where three Indonesian Peacekeepers were recently killed with serious injury to several other blue helmets. The origin of the attacks on the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon have yet to be determined but comes in the context of a continued Israeli expansion of military operations in southern Lebanon in an effort to quell rocket fire from militant group Hezbollah, that is targeting Israel in solidarity with Iran. Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier warned that attacks on peacekeepers were grave violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.</p>