US EditionIsraeli diplomat pledges to investigate case of Italian officers held at gunpoint in West Bank
Italy protested the soldier's weapon use and treatment of two Carabinieri officers, with Israel pledging an investigation after the incident near Ramallah.
- On Sunday near Ramallah, an Israeli soldier held up two Italian security officers, Carabinieri, with an automatic weapon in the occupied West Bank.
- Italy says the officers were stopped by an Israeli `linked to settler circles`, while Israel's military says the soldier detained the vehicle under army procedure because it wasn't marked and was on a road closed to civilian traffic.
- Italian media reported the officers were made to kneel and answer questions before release, traveling in an armored car with diplomatic plates and carrying diplomatic passports.
- On Monday, Italy summoned Israeli ambassador Jonathan Peled, the Italian Foreign Ministry conveyed `strong disappointment and strong protest`, and Peled `expressed regret for the incident` while Israel pledged `appropriate investigations`.
- Against a backdrop of rising settler violence, the Italian Foreign Ministry reiterated concerns about security and noted some 500,000 Israelis have settled in the West Bank since the 1967 Mideast war.
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Israeli diplomat pledges to investigate case of Italian officers held at gunpoint in West Bank
Italy says Israel’s ambassador has pledged an investigation after two Italian officers were held up by an Israeli with an automatic weapon in the West Bank.
It complicates the half diplomatic crisis opened between Italy and Israel after the declaration of the IDF that it was a soldier and not a colonist, civil as much as armed, to stop the two carabinieri last Sunday in the vicinity of Ramallah in the West Bank, forcing them to kneel under the threat of a gun machine gun and then release them, telling them not to come back from those parts. For Rome, who reacted by summoning to Farnesina Ambassador …
For the Israeli army he was not a colonist (ANSA)
In 2025 dozens of reservists were dismissed for attacks on the Palestinians. "That soldier was summoned to give clarification," said Minister Tajani. "I would say that there is displeasure on the part of Israel for what happened," he concluded by closing the case in fact.
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