Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Chigi Palace announced this.
According to reports, Meloni "insisted on the need to immediately end hostilities, given the situation in Gaza that—she stressed—is unsustainable and unjustifiable."
President Sergio Mattarella also spoke harshly about Gaza: "Errors were also spoken of in the shooting of ambulances and killing doctors and nurses who were assisting the wounded, in the targeting and killing of thirsty children queuing for water, in the killing of so many hungry people queuing for food, in the destruction of hospitals, including the killing of children hospitalized for malnutrition ," the Head of State prefaced his remarks. He added: "It is difficult, in such a chain, to see an involuntary repetition of errors and not recognize a determination to kill indiscriminately. A condition emblematically depicted by the child taken in with his mother in an Italian hospital, after losing his father and nine siblings—all children—in the bombing of his home."
"Even the incredible bombing of the Holy Family Parish in Gaza has been called a mistake. For many centuries," Mattarella concluded, "from Seneca to St. Augustine, we have been reminded that 'to err is human, to persevere is diabolical.'"
(Unioneonline/lf)
