Giorgia Meloni plans Lebanon visit as fears grow for UN peacekeeping troops

Italian PM demands security guarantees for her country’s Unifil troops after series of attacks by Israel

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Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has said she plans to visit Lebanon and has demanded security guarantees for her country’s troops there, after a series of attacks by Israel on UN peacekeepers.

“It is already planned that I will go to Lebanon,” she told the Italian senate, without giving a date.