Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced Tuesday that she plans to visit Lebanon, and called for security guarantees for her country's troops there after UN peacekeepers came under fire during the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.

"We believe that the position of the Israeli armed forces is not fully justified," Meloni told Italy's Senate, calling the aforementioned incident a "gross violation" of a UN resolution calling for an end to hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

"I have already planned a trip to Lebanon, as [Italian] Foreign Minister [Antonio] Tajani will visit Israel and Palestine next week," Meloni told Italian senators , but did not announce the date of her visit.