BEIRUT: Spain’s King Felipe VI met with his country’s peacekeepers stationed in Lebanon’s volatile south Wednesday, where a Spanish soldier was killed in Israeli shelling earlier this year.

Felipe arrived at the Spanish peacekeeping force’s headquarters in Marjayoun before midday to pay tribute to Cpl. Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, who was killed Jan. 28 by an Israeli shell that hit his post near the border village of Ghajar.

Toledo, who had been serving in the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon since November 2014, was killed during exchanges of artillery and rocket fire between Israeli troops and Hezbollah.

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