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The leader of Italy’s second-largest opposition party has called for the Italian government and the EU to move “beyond words” and enact an arms embargo on Israel due to its expanding violence in the Middle East. Giuseppe Conte, leader of the big-tent populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and a former prime minister of Italy, spoke out against Israel’s recent targeting of UN peacekeepers including Italians, in Lebanon, as well as the number of civilians it has killed in Gaza. “After the shooting on the bases where Italian soldiers of the UNIFIL mission are stationed, now Israeli tanks are raiding U…

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