Deal Reached on Bethlehem Siege, but No One Will Accept Gunmen
Negotiators had named Italy as their destination, but the Italian Foreign Ministry insisted that it had not been consulted or received any request to take them in.

The ministry said it "never received any information from the parties about the process of the negotiations, nor were any requests advanced in the past few days from these parties."

A statement added, "The issue of the acceptance in Italy of Palestinian citizens has never been posed, and up to the point that we have reached, it cannot be proposed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/international/middleeast/07CND-BETH.html