Brussels/Rome (ANSA) – The top of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, condemned Israel’s assaults on the Unifil mission in southern Lebanon, calling them an “unacceptable act.” “One other line has been dangerously crossed in Lebanon: the IdF bombing in opposition to known-position UN peace forces,” he wrote on X. “We condemn this unacceptable act, for which there isn’t any justification.”
“The EU reiterates its full help of Unifil and its troops within the mission entrusted to it by the United Nations Safety Council,” he added. The Israeli military “intentionally” focused the UN peace power at its headquarters in Naqura, the place two Indonesian troopers have been injured, and the 2 Italian bases 1-31 and 1-32A.
The response of Italy, which with about 1,200 troopers deploys the most important contingent of Unifil, was speedy. “Unacceptable,” commented Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, involved with Guido Crosetto who summoned Israel’s designated ambassador, Jonathan Peled, to precise the indignation and protest of the federal government and the whole nation, and to remind him that “neither the UN nor Italy takes orders from Israel,” which continues to immediate the blue helmets to withdraw (October 10).