(Adnkronos) – A total 52 Palestinian civilians from war-devastated Gaza are on their way to Italy aboard flights from Jordan, joining family members who were previously flown in for hospital treatment, foreign minister Antonio Tajani announced on Wednesday.
“The Italian government continues to take care of civilians affected by the war,” Tajani wrote on X.
“A new group of 52 Palestinian citizens from #Gaza has been transferred to Jordan,” Tajani continued.
“They are relatives of Palestinians who have already arrived in Italy in previous medical evacuations from the Strip and will soon arrive in Italy on scheduled flights,” Tajani stated.
The government has airlifted nearly 400 Gazans to Italy for crucial medical treatment including over 130 children and their relations, the foreign ministry said in a statement last week.
“I have asked Israel again to stop military operations involving civilians and to immediately open all crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter (Gaza),” the post went on.
“We want a ceasefire and the release of the hostages: the war in Gaza must end,” Tajani underlined.
Tajani referred to 58 out of the 251 Israelis who were captured by Hamas in a cross-border raid on 7 October 2023 in which some 1,200 people died, according to Israeli tallies.
The Hamas assault triggered Israel’s ongoing offensive against the Islamist Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip. The war has killed over 53,000 people according to the Hamas-run health ministry, has reduced most of the coastal enclave to rubble, forced almost all its residents from their homes and left them on the brink of starvation due to Israel’s months-long aid blockade.
