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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s government freezes automatic renewal of defence cooperation deal with Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 14 Apr 2026<\/span>14 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Italy has suspended a defence agreement with Israel that involves the exchange of military equipment and technology research, according to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.<\/p>\n \u201cIn view of the current situation, the government has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defence agreement with Israel,\u201d Meloni said on Tuesday on the sidelines of an event in Verona, according to the Italian news agencies ANSA and AGI.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Approved by Israel in 2006, the agreement is renewed automatically every five years. It calls for cooperation across defence industries, education and training of military personnel, research and development, and information technology.<\/p>\n Meloni\u2019s right-wing government has been one of Israel\u2019s closest allies in Europe, but in recent weeks, it has criticised Israeli attacks on Lebanon.<\/p>\n There was no immediate reaction by the Israeli government after Tuesday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n Tensions between the two countries have risen over the past week after the Italian government accused Israeli forces of firing warning shots at a convoy of Italian peacekeepers in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Italy summoned Israel\u2019s ambassador in protest over the incident, which damaged at least one vehicle and caused no injuries.<\/p>\n On Monday, Israel summoned Italy\u2019s ambassador after comments by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani that condemned \u201cunacceptable attacks\u201d on Lebanese civilians by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n Tajani, who is also deputy prime minister, was in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi.<\/p>\n He later wrote on X that he was there to \u201cconvey Italy\u2019s solidarity following Israel\u2019s unacceptable attacks against the civilian population\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s government freezes automatic renewal of defence cooperation deal with Israel. Published On 14 Apr 202614 Apr 2026 Italy has suspended a defence agreement with Israel that involves the exchange of military equipment and technology research, according to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. \u201cIn view of the current situation, the government has decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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