Palestinian children are sitting together outdoors in a Gaza refugee camp following overnight Israeli airstrikes that reportedly hit the makeshift camp located outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, on May 17, 2025. (Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP.)
“We must say to the Israeli government: that's enough,” said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday regarding Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.
“We no longer want to see the Palestinian population suffer. The attacks (in Gaza, editor's note), that's enough, let's reach a cease-fire, free the hostages, but leave in peace a people who are victims of Hamas,” said the minister during a visit to Sicily, whose remarks were reported by his spokesperson.
“You have reacted; guarantee your independence, your security, free the hostages but let's achieve peace,” he added during a political rally in Noto.
Israeli army announced on Saturday it was expanding its offensive to defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where its bombings killed ten people in the morning according to rescue services, after several days of deadly shelling of the devastated and starving territory.
Despite growing international criticism of its conduct in the conflict and the ongoing humanitarian disaster, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned on Monday of an imminent “forceful” entry of the army into Gaza to “complete the operation and defeat Hamas,” whose attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, had triggered the war in the Palestinian territory.