ROME, Italy — Italy on Monday summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest, after two Italian policemen were threatened at gunpoint by an Israeli during a field visit in the West Bank, the Italian foreign ministry said.

The two military policemen were stopped on Sunday by an armed Israeli while they were carrying out a site inspection ahead of a planned visit by European Union ambassadors to a village near Ramallah.

According to a government source, the Israeli, believed to have been a settler, forced the two men to kneel at gunpoint and subjected them to an improvised interrogation.

The soldiers were traveling in a vehicle with diplomatic license........

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