Hamas-Israel war, six months after October 7

THEL October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorists targeted approximately 1,200 Israelis, killing over 300 participants Supernova Festival in southern Israel, five kilometers from the Gaza Strip, and hitting civilians in the nearby kibbutzim with unprecedented violence. Six months later, the war between Israel and Hamas continues, the more than 250 Israeli hostages have still not been brought home and the civilian population of Gaza has been massacred. Over 30 thousand Palestinian victims. According to the UN, a third of these deaths are minors. The highest number of children killed in five months in any war in the world in the last four years. Famine in Gaza is inevitable, as are the first deaths from malnutrition. It is estimated that there are 75 thousand Palestinians injured and that a million people are starving.

Between April 6th and 7th, thousands of protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. They are calling for an agreement that brings the hostages home, the resignation of the current government and early elections. Meanwhile, I'm arriving in Rome Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz together with a group of relatives of the hostages, for a meeting with the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani, the defense minister Guido Crosetto, the interior minister Matteo Piantadosi and the leaders of the Jewish community in Italy. “We are working” on the Food for Gaza operation, explained Tajani. «There have been several meetings and today I will ask the Foreign Minister of Israel to help this operation that we are carrying out and for which we will invest 20 million euros. I hope that a positive solution can be found to help the Palestinian civilian population, there is a very serious situation that no one wants to continue. Then we need a ceasefire and the release of the Israeli hostages. I hope that with the discussion between the parties and with the support of the United States, Egypt and with our support we can reach a ceasefire.”

Six months have passed since October 7 and the war has not brought Israel the objectives for which it started it, that is, quoting Prime Minister Netanyahu “to destroy Hamas”, even if the Israeli army claims to have killed at least 9 thousand militiamen but the data have also been discussed in the Israeli press. Meanwhile, right now The Israeli army announced that it had withdrawn all ground troops from the southern Strip. Almost 180 days after the start of the war, after the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1st attributed to Israel, Iran makes it known that it is ready to respond and with the increase in tensions no Israeli embassy in the world is anymore safe. At the moment the one in Rome has also been closed.

Despite the request of cease-fire immediately presented by the Security Council with a resolution that obtained 14 votes in favour, including those of the governments of China and Russia, while the United States abstained, the war does not appear to have any setbacks. Israel has in fact reiterated that it wants to continue the offensive on Rafah where, at the request of Israel, the majority of Palestinian civilians (over one million), more than half the population of the entire Gaza Strip, have taken refuge.