(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday expressed “total condemnation” for the Israel Defence Forces attacks on civilians in Gaza and its Catholic church and “solidarity” with the parish priest and other victims, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
In a phone call with Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar and later with Gaza’s parish priest Gabriel Romanelli, who was injured in an IDF strike Thursday on the Church of the Holy Family, Tajani underlined his “total condemnation” of Israeli military attacks targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip, said the statement.
Italy considers the situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave “intolerable” and urges “clarification” over those responsible for Thursday’s attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church, the statement continued.
During his phone conversation with Romanelli, Tajani expressed “solidarity” with the priest and his “full support” for the victims of Thursday’s attack on his church, the statement concluded.
Two people were killed in the Israeli strike on the Church of the Holy Family, in which Romanelli and several other people were wounded.
“Two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family compound this morning,” the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.
The two victims of the strike on the church were women, according to doctors at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital.
The IDF wrote on X that it was reviewing “the circumstances of the incident”.
