{"id":61589,"date":"2026-11-06T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/61589\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:42:10","slug":"italian-foreign-minister-says-detained-italians-in-west-bank-did-nothing-calls-for-their-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/61589\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian foreign minister says detained Italians in West Bank \u2018did nothing,\u2019 calls for their return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u015eeyma Erkul Dayan\u00e7<\/p>\n<p>06 November 2026\u2022Update: 06 November 2026<\/p>\n<p>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Friday that Italians detained by Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank had \u201cdone nothing,\u201d calling for their return to Italy, ANSA reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are following the case. They did nothing, they were just there carrying out agricultural activities, harvesting olives. We hope they can be sent back to Italy as soon as possible,\u201d Tajani said.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees were among 14 international volunteers arrested near Kafr Ni\u2019ma, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ramallah, while helping Palestinians with the olive harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Italians was Giorgia Lombardi, a city councilor in La Spezia and a member of the National Council of Europa Verde.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo Bonelli, a lawmaker from the Green and Left Alliance and co-spokesperson for Europa Verde, said the volunteers had been attacked after Palestinian farmers were assaulted by Israeli occupiers.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that Israeli forces subsequently detained the volunteers and confiscated their passports.<\/p>\n<p>Bonelli called on Italy\u2019s Foreign Ministry and diplomatic representatives to take immediate steps to ensure the safety and release of the Italian citizens and other volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u015eeyma Erkul Dayan\u00e7 06 November 2026\u2022Update: 06 November 2026 Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Friday that Italians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3569],"class_list":["post-61589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-italy","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}