Meloni meets head of Italian mission in Lebanon

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 18 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday met the head of the Italian Italian Bilateral Military Mission in Lebanon (MIBIL) and voiced solidarity with UNIFIL after recent alleged attacks from Israeli troops which Tel Aviv says were accidents in its onslaught on Hezbollah militants who are allegedly using the peacekeepers as shields.
    The Italian PM with the commander of the Italian bilateral mission in Lebanon, Colonel Matteo Vitulano, and the vice president of the Technical-Military Committee for Lebanon, Colonel Cortone.
    The Prime Minister expressed her personal closeness and that of the Government to the entire UNIFIL mission and all the Italian soldiers engaged in Lebanon, Italian sources said.
    Italy has over 1,000 members of the military deployed with UNIFIL while approximately 200 others are in Beirut as part of MIBIL.. (ANSA).