The ​headquarters of Ghana’s United ‌Nations peacekeeping battalion in ​Lebanon was hit ⁠by missile attacks on Friday (March 6, 2026), leaving two soldiers critically injured, ‌Ghana’s armed forces said in ‌a statement.

Lebanon was ‌pulled ⁠into the war ⁠in the West Asia on Monday (March 2, 2026), when Hezbollah fired rockets ​at Israel ‌that ignited a new Israeli offensive against the group.

Ghanaian soldiers are ‌deployed as part ​of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.

The statement ⁠from Ghana’s armed forces did not say ‌who fired the missiles, but it said Ghana’s Foreign Ministry had protested the incident at U.N. headquarters in ‌New York.

In addition to ​the two critically injured soldiers, the statement ⁠said that another soldier “has ⁠been traumatised” while the officers’ mess facility ‌was hit and burned down.