The IDF has repeatedly demanded that UNIFIL troops remove themselves from the path of its growing campaign against Hezbollah.View on euronews

A spokesman for forces in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon says it is maintaining its positions despite warnings to move from the Israeli Defense Forces.

United Nations peacekeepers have been deployed in south Lebanon since 1978, when Israel first invaded its northern neighbor in pursuit of militants that had attacked it from there. Israel is still battling fighters based in south Lebanon — though different ones — and UN forces are still present,