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Spain summons Israel envoy after Spanish UN soldier briefly held in Lebanon

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Spain summoned Israel’s top representative to Madrid on Wednesday after the Israeli military briefly arrested a Spanish soldier from the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, foreign ministry sources said.

Israel’s charge d’affaires was summoned “to protest the unjustifiable detention of a Spanish UNIFIL soldier by the Israeli army”, the sources said.

UNIFIL on Tuesday said Israeli forces had held one of its peacekeepers “after blocking a logistics convoy”, without revealing the nationality. The soldier “was released in less than an hour”.

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