Crosetto makes lightning visit to Lebanon

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 23 - Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto made a lightning visit to Lebanon on Monday to meet Italian military personnel deployed in the south of the country close to the demarcation line with Israel.
    Sources said the minister wanted to "see for himself the security conditions, morale and the current situation of the contingent" in light of the crisis sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack against the Jewish state.
    At the Shamaa military base Crosetto was welcomed by General Giovanni Brafa Musicoro, head of the Italian contingent totalling around 1,000 personnel participating in the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) mission.
    His press office said he would then have meetings with institutional representatives in the capital Beirut. (ANSA).