EU officials call on Israel to clarify 'warning shots' in West Bankpublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 21 May
As we reported earlier, Israel's military says its troops fired "warning shots" in the vicinity of an accredited diplomatic delegation after it deviated from an approved route during a visit to the Jenin area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
However, the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs said the delegation was "deliberately targeted".
The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has since called on Israel to "investigate this incident and also hold those accountable who are responsible for this and any threats on diplomats' lives".
Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in a statement on X that he had instructed his ministry to "summon the Israeli Ambassador to Rome to obtain official clarifications regarding what happened in Jenin".
Tajani said earlier that he had spoken to Alessandro Tutino, the deputy consul general of Italy in Jerusalem, "who is well and who was among the diplomats who were apparently shot at near the Jenin refugee camp".