Gaza, Tajani: ‘Peace hangs by a thread, but it would be a historic turning point’

Milan, 7 October (LaPresse) – Peace in Gaza ‘still hangs by a thread, but if it were to be achieved, it would truly be a historic turning point’. This was written by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in an article published in Il Foglio on the second anniversary of 7 October 2023. Tajani speaks of the ‘ferocity’ unleashed by the attack on the Nova Festival on 7 October 2023, “a massacre of innocent Jews carried out not by a single individual or a small group of terrorists, but by hundreds or perhaps thousands of people, organised in a military fashion but driven by a ferocity that does not belong to professional combatants. A ferocity that, with macabre irony, was directed precisely at those citizens of Israel who were motivated by the most peaceful sentiments towards the inhabitants of Gaza. The inhabitants of the border kibbutzim were pacifists engaged in humanitarian cooperation projects and cordial coexistence with their Gazan neighbours. The Nova Festival, where young people were attacked and massacred while dancing, was a pacifist gathering.”