The UNIFIL mission base in Shama in southern Lebanon was hit by rockets allegedly fired by Hezbollah or one of its affiliate groups.
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00:00Italy's foreign minister has condemned an attack on a UNIFIL base in Lebanon after it
00:06was hit by rockets allegedly fired by the militant group Hezbollah or its affiliates.
00:12Four Italian soldiers were injured when two rockets hit the mission base in Sharma.
00:17Antonio Tejani said the strikes were unacceptable and advised groups like Hezbollah not to play
00:22with weapons they don't know how to operate.
00:26Hezbollah is the UN peacekeeping mission to southern Lebanon and has operated in the country
00:30since 1978.
00:32It consists of more than 10,000 peacekeepers from 48 countries.
00:37Lebanon-based Hezbollah began firing into Israel the day after the war in Gaza started,
00:42with both sides exchanging almost daily cross-border fire.
00:46That's displaced tens of thousands on both sides of the border.
00:50Israel launched a ground offensive into Lebanon in October with up to 15,000 Israeli troops
00:55believed to be in the country.