Tajani: "The primary objective is to free our compatriots held hostage by Hamas"

Tajani: "The primary objective is to free our compatriots held hostage by Hamas" Read the news on Agenzia Nova Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has stated that the country's primary objective is to free the hostages held hostage by Hamas. Tajani discussed the situation with counterparts in the region and expressed solidarity for the criminal murder of Jewish citizens. He concluded that the worsening of the situation in the Middle East and the involvement of civilians makes the diplomatic solution more difficult but they must not give up.

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Italy's primary objective is to free the hostages in the hands of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The Foreign Minister said so Antonio Tajani on the sidelines of the “Security and Defense Days” event organized by the “De Gasperi Foundation”. “The meetings in Israel fall within the context of the Italian government's initiatives, first I was in Egypt and then in Jordan,” said Tajani, speaking of the various contacts he had with his counterparts in the region. “I expressed solidarity for the criminal murder of Jewish citizens in a barbaric manner which recalled the images of the Rome Ghetto or the Holocaust,” Tajani said, underlining that “Israel's right cannot be questioned by anyone but the Palestinian people cannot be confused with Hamas."

“Italy is the protagonist of a diplomatic action which aims to reduce the conflict and its regionalization", said the Foreign Minister. We need to “work towards deescalation. I spoke about all this, also asking for action to free the hostages. I talked about it during my mission in Egypt with Al Sisi and Shoukry. I spoke about it during my visit to Jordan and with the foreign ministers of most Arab countries,” added Tajani.

For the Foreign Minister “the worsening of the situation in Middle East and the involvement of civilians makes the diplomatic solution more difficult but we must not give up." “We didn't do it in Ukraine after months of war and we don't intend to do it in the Middle East. We are working to free the hostages, to avoid actions that violate international law and to safeguard the civilian population,” Tajani said. “The diplomatic path is a difficult choice now but it absolutely must not be abandoned,” he concluded.