'We're staying put in Lebanon' says Crosetto

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 11 - Italy has been in Lebanon with the UNIFIL peacekeeping buffer force for many years and is staying put despite Israeli attacks and orders to get out, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said Friday after an Italian base was attacked for the second time overnight Friday, one of three bases hit on Thursday in an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) campaign that has so far injured two Indonesian and two Sri Lankan soldiers.
    "We will never be the ones to move because someone tells us, by force, to move," he said on a visit to other Italian peacekeeping troops, in Kosovo.
    "We are there and we will stay there, with the strength of the United Nations mandate".
    "Yesterday I responded to Israel after they told us to move, that Italy does not take orders from anyone". (ANSA).