ROME, August 27, 2025 (WAFA) – Italian Prime Minister denounced on Wednesday the Israeli deadly attack that resulted in the killing of five journalists in Gaza as unjustifiable, according to the Anadolu Agency.
Speaking at the annual Rimini meeting – organized by the catholic association Comunione e Liberazione – Meloni said the deadly strike represented “an unacceptable attack on the freedom of the press and on all those who risk their lives to report the drama of war.”
While Meloni described Israel’s genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip as a reaction, she added that it was now “impossible to remain silent in the face of a reaction that has gone beyond the principle of proportionality, claiming too many innocent victims and even involving Christian communities.”
She called on Israel to end its military occupation of Gaza, to allow aid into the Palestinian enclave, and halt colonial expansion in the West Bank.
On Monday, Israeli warplanes struck the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, leaving 22 people dead, including five journalists and media personnel, and wounding dozens of others.
The media personnel were identified as Middle East Eye journalists Mohammed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz, Associated Press reporter Mariam Dagga, Reuters news agency photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, and freelance reporter Moaz Abu Taha.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing at least 11,050 with 46,886 others wounded, according to medical sources.
In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 76 slain Palestinians, including one retrieved from the rubble, and 298 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 62,895 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 158,927 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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