blue-helmet

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blue-helmet (plural blue-helmets)

  1. (UN) Synonym of blue beret
    • 2024 May 28, Scott Peterson, “To avoid war, Israel and Hezbollah shift their red lines. But war heats up.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
      “The rhetoric is very high, but the reality is different,” says Andrea Tenenti, the spokesperson for UNIFIL, which has more than 10,000 blue-helmet troops from nearly 50 nations stationed in a border region south of the Litani River.

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