The Italian navy Sunday handed over to German command the U.N. naval force tasked with intercepting arms shipments along the coastline following Israel's war with Hizbullah.
Italy's Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi passed command of the beefed-up force to Germany's Admiral Andreas Krause during a ceremony aboard Italy's flagship Garibaldi aircraft carrier in Beirut harbor.
The ceremony was also attended by United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commander Major General Alain Pellegrini who hailed the Italians' mission -- which helped end a crippling Israeli blockade of Lebanon -- as "a real success".
Germany has agreed to send up to 2,400 military personnel to Lebanon in the country's first mission in the Middle East since World War II.
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