BRUSSELS: Italy's Foreign Minister has called for an immediate halt to hostilities in Libya to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, in what is the first sign of a fracture in the NATO coalition.

Speaking in Italy's parliament, Franco Frattini called for ''an immediate humanitarian suspension of hostilities''.

Amr Moussa ... reservations about air strikes. Credit:AFP

''With regard to NATO, it is fair to ask for increasingly detailed information on results as well as precise guidelines on the dramatic errors involving civilians,'' he said.

The call came days after NATO acknowledged the accidental killing of civilians in a Tripoli bombing on Sunday.