UN Sec. Council condemns killing of French peacekeeper in Lebanon

The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned the recent killing of a French peacekeeper in Lebanon, whose death France has blamed on Hezbollah.

The Frenchman was killed and three others wounded when their unit was ambushed on Saturday as it headed to a U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) outpost cut off from the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.

"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack...(and) reaffirmed their full support for UNIFIL" a statement from the U.N. body said.

President Emmanuel Macron said France was not specifically targeted in the killing of the French soldier, while blaming pro-Iranian group Hezbollah for the attack.

"It was Hezbollah, in fact, that targeted our soldiers," Macron said of Saturday's attack.

"They didn't target them because they were French. They targeted them because they were on a mission to stand alongside the civilian population," Macron told journalists in Gdansk, Poland.