{"id":6874,"date":"2023-10-09T13:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2023-10-09T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:06:49","slug":"italy-stands-with-israel-as-war-breaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/italy-stands-with-israel-as-war-breaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy stands with Israel as war breaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Decode39 &#8211;<\/strong> PM Meloni called PM Netanyahu to express Rome\u2019s solidarity and vow its support. FM Tajani is travelling to Egypt and working with Quint partners to contain the violence and prevent it from spilling out of the Middle East. Meanwhile, Italian authorities are boosting security measures and acting proactively to address the risk of jihadist extremism<\/p><p><strong>The Rome-Jerusalem hotline.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p>Italian officials have been following the outbreak of violence near the Gaza Strip over the weekend, as Hamas launched a bloody attack against Israel\u2019s citizens and statehood. On Sunday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cthe Italian government\u2019s full solidarity [and] its closeness to the families of the victims, the hostages and the injured.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Italian executive \u201cwill work with international partners to coordinate support. Italy stands by the Israeli people at this difficult time,\u201d reads an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governo.it\/it\/articolo\/colloquio-telefonico-del-presidente-meloni-con-il-primo-ministro-dello-stato-di-israele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official note<\/a>&nbsp;from the PM\u2019s office.<\/li><li>President Sergio Mattarella also sent a message to President Isaac Herzog, expressing \u201cthe strongest and most convinced condemnation\u201d of the \u201cperfidious attack against Israel\u2019s security.\u201d<ul><li>The aggression \u201cdistances the prospect of a lasting peace\u201d between Israelis and Palestinians, he added.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Ties are ironclad.&nbsp;<\/strong>PMs Meloni and Netanyahu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/decode39.com\/6099\/netanyahu-meloni-quantum-israel-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had met<\/a>&nbsp;in Rome this past March, vowing to usher in a \u201cquantum leap\u201d in Italian-Israeli cooperation amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/decode39.com\/6078\/netanyahu-rome-business-energy-security-jerusalem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a general levelling up<\/a>&nbsp;of relations across sectors. The two, who share a personal connection, had promised to organise a government-to-government summit in the coming months.<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Italian head of government and her party, which has a post-fascist heritage,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/decode39.com\/4590\/meloni-brothers-of-italy-antisemitism-jewish-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have also been polishing their credentials<\/a>&nbsp;by standing firmly by the Jewish community in Italy and taking steps to address antisemitism.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Calling Lebanon, too.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p>On Monday, PM Meloni also spoke with her Lebanese counterpart Najib Mikati about the ongoing conflict. She said that Italy would continue contributing to Lebanon\u2019s security and stability at this delicate juncture and called for a rapid de-escalation to avoid spillover effects that would bring about \u201cincalculable consequences for the entire area.\u201d<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rome&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/decode39.com\/6167\/lebanon-italy-keen-cooperation-meloni-mikati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is a major contributor<\/a>&nbsp;to the United Nations\u2019s stabilisation operation in Lebanon, dubbed UNIFIL.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Antonio Tajani (and the Quint) get to work.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p>On Sunday, the Italian Foreign Minister announced he would travel to Egypt, a historic mediator between Israeli authorities and Hamas, to promote de-escalation and negotiate a solution. \u201cNo one wants another wide-ranging war to break out,\u201d he said while also emphasising Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/decode39.com\/7968\/italy-stands-israel-war-breaks-out\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> PM Meloni called PM Netanyahu to express Rome\u2019s solidarity and vow its support. FM Tajani is travelling to Egypt and working with Quint partners to contain the violence and prevent it from spilling out of the Middle East. Meanwhile, Italian authorities are boosting security measures and acting proactively to address the risk of jihadist extremism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/H_DSC03176-860x556-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}