“We need one final negotiated solution between Israel and Palestine which, with the assistance of the international community, provides for the creation of two sovereign and independent states. This is essential to guarantee lasting peace and security for the two peoples and the entire region, and to prevent the hostility, aversion and resentment that have accumulated in recent months from producing new and increasingly dramatic explosions of violence throughout the Middle East. “. This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a statement released on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks against the citizens of Israel.
“It is a responsibility that, if it falls, first and foremost, to Israelis and Palestinians – adds the head of State -, must be seen activate all peace-loving peoples so that the horror of the past is not repeated, taking steps now to establish the terms of a future agreement between all the states of the region”.
“Firm condemnation and strong indignation has aroused, in Italy and around the world, the barbaric attack conducted by Hamas against defenseless Israeli citizens on 7 October 2023. One year later – underlines Mattarella -, the closeness and solidarity of the Italian Republic to the Israeli people so ignobly affected is great”.
“While deploring once again that brutal terrorist act, we share with emotion the pain of the families of the victims and we renew the appeal so that the people cruelly taken hostage with inhumane practices are freed and can be reunited with their families”, highlights Mattarella who expresses “deep concern for the condition of civilians in Gaza, whose population has suffered unspeakable loss and suffering and has the right to be free from the destruction and violence of war. Italy convincingly supports Israel’s rights to its existence in peace and security and to defense against attacks, in compliance with international law and international humanitarian law”.
“It’s more than ever It is necessary to reach an immediate ceasefire to put an end to the series of horrors that have followed one another from 7 October last year to today and to avoid the widening of the conflict, a prospect that very recent events unfortunately make close and concrete”, the conclusion of the President of the Republic.