The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL (a peacekeeping mission set up in 1978 after Israel's first invasion of Lebanon), is due to begin withdrawing at the end of 2026, after the UN Security Council voted to end its mandate under Israeli and US pressure. Its roughly 7,000 troops from nearly 50 countries are to hand over to the Lebanese army, even though Israel now occupies about 6% of Lebanese territory and bars that army from areas south of its so-called Yellow Line. UNIFIL says it has logged more than 11,000 Israeli violations since a June ceasefire, and France is pushing for a multinational European force to keep monitoring the area, while many locals fear Israel will tighten its grip once the peacekeepers go.