Ministero della Difesa

The Mission is regulated by the provisions of Article 14 of the Agreement on Temporary International Presence in the city of Hebron. It was strongly backed by the Government of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, signatories to the temporary Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip of 28th September 1995.

This Agreement provided for the partial redeployment of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from Hebron and for the temporary presence of international observers.

Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey take part in the mission.

On 10th  February, as a consequence of the persistently tense situation and following the riots of 8th February 2006 in Hebron, for security reasons part of personnel were withdrawn temporarily and what was left of the contingent was redeployed in Jerusalem. On 26th June 2006, Italian personnel from the contingent were redeployed in Hebron and, in the second ten days of July, daytime patrolling in Hebron was resumed.