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Italian FM warns Israel that Gaza war plan ‘risks turning into a Vietnam’
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Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in London, May 12, 2025. (Adrian Dennis/Pool Photo via AP)
Italy warns Israel to heed its own army’s warnings against embarking on a widespread military campaign to conquer all of the Gaza Strip.
“The invasion of Gaza risks turning into a Vietnam for Israeli soldiers,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says in an interview with daily Il Messaggero.
He reiterates calls for a United Nations mission led by Arab countries to “reunify the Palestinian state” and says Italy is ready to participate.
The UN Security Council is likely to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the prospect of its worsening if the Israeli plan goes ahead, but there has so far been little appetite among Arab states to send their troops in.
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