Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she would visit Lebanon, where Italian troops are part of a UN mission that has accused Israeli forces of firing on peacekeepers, AFP reports.

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

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will be heading to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week, Meloni added.

Speaking to the Senate, ahead of a summit in Brussels that she will be attending from tomorrow, she said the attitude of the Israeli forces was “entirely unjustified”.

“In recent days, for the first time in a year of Israeli military actions, the positions of the Italian military contingent assigned to the UNIFIL mission of the United Nations have been hit by the Israeli army,” she said.

“Although there were no casualties or significant damage, I believe this cannot be considered acceptable.”

She demanded the security of the soldiers be guaranteed.

“We consider the attitude of the Israeli forces to be entirely unjustified, in addition to representing a blatant violation of what was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701,” said Meloni.

“On the other hand, we cannot ignore the violation of the same resolution committed over the years by Hezbollah, which has worked to militarise the area under UNIFIL’s jurisdiction. “