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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
EU defense chiefs want ‘maximum pressure’ on Israel to stop UNIFIL ‘incidents’
ROME, Italy — Sixteen EU defense ministers express “the shared will to exert maximum political and diplomatic pressure on Israel” to prevent further “incidents” against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, Italy says.
Italy and France organized a video conference involving the 16 EU countries that participate in UNIFIL, where the ministers “strongly condemned” attacks the mission has blamed on Israel, the Italian Defense Ministry says.
“It was also strongly expressed that the rules of engagement need to be revised to allow UNIFIL to operate more effectively and safely,” the ministry adds, without going into detail.
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