WATCH LIVE: The Pentagon holds a press conference as two UN peacekeepers are wounded by an Israeli tank in Lebanon

BEIRUT – The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said Thursday an Israeli tank fired on its headquarters in the town of Naqoura, hitting an observation tower and wounding two peacekeepers who were hospitalized.

Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder is scheduled to hold a news conference at 1:45 p.m. EDT. Watch it in the player above.

UNIFIL said in a statement that its headquarters and nearby positions “were repeatedly hit.” It said the army also fired on a nearby bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, damaging vehicles and a communications system. It was said that an Israeli drone flew to the entrance to the bunker.