Italy ready to send peacekeepers to Gaza

Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on January 19 that Italy would be willing to take part in a UN peacekeeping mission in Gaza if the international community agreed on one.

"More than 1,000 Italian military personnel who are in Lebanon are there for a UN mission," Tajani told Radio24.

"If a peace mission is needed in Gaza, in a transitional phase, we are ready to send our military personnel with the UN as peacekeepers," he continued, adding that "there is no American request to expand the Lebanese mission in this regard" at the moment.