Interview with 1Twente radio station for Enschede Veterans Day
Enschede, 24 June 2025 
On Wednesday, June 18, I received an email from the Veterans Committee in Enschede,
They served in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon 40 years ago. 'I feel even more powerless now than I did then.'
Published on: October 13, 2024 
© Author: Kees Versteegh, Photos: Annabel Oosteweeghel.
The NRC newspaper spoke to five veterans who served in Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Israeli raid rips open old wounds of Lebanon veterans: 'To make you despondent'
Lebanon veteran Bert Kleine Schaars and his wife Jeannet, with whom he runs the Veterans for Lebanon foundation.
AD PREMIUM, 09 october 2024, © Ronald Hissink, Tonny van der mee. 
The Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon evokes many emotions among Lebanon veterans.
Concerned veteran Bert offers Lebanon a helping hand: 'The situation has only got worse'
Schalkhaar, 4 October 2024 
© text Luuk ten Kleij / photos Ruben Meijerink
He served there as a soldier in 1980 and is still closely involved in the country.
Lebanon veteran appeals: give medicine to Lebanese people
Schalkhaar October 2, 2024 
Text: © RTV Oost / Teun van der Velden
Almost every day he is in contact with the inhabitants of Lebanon,