“Our goal is to bring to the destination the aid of the flotilla and protect each of the people who find themselves on board.” During the government’s urgent information in the Chamber, the Minister of Defense Crosetto reveals the ongoing negotiations to “seek a way out that allows, I repeat, to get aid to Gaza and avoid damage not only to the Italians but to all of them find on the boats”. Talk to all the actors on the pitch and asks for theAlso help of the Italian Episcopal Conference because what was generously donated by thousands and thousands of Italian citizens to arrive at the hungry population of Gaza. Maybe with a landing a Cyprus and from there, with The intervention of the CEI and of the Italian government, delivered to their destination. With regard to the involvement of the CEI, the Italian bishops let it know that Cardinal Matteo Zuppi intervened towards the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem to facilitate the arrival and delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and that the Italian Church “He strongly asks that ccessi every form of violence unacceptable against an entire people and that the hostages are freed ».
Meanwhile The minister is clear. “The Italian government,” he says on the morning of September 25, referring to the attacks suffered by the Global Sumud Flotilla, “expresses the most firm condemnation for what happened. Attacks on civil boats in the open field are totally unacceptable. The episode strongly recalls the fundamental values of our Republic; Respect for international law, the protection of human life, the defense of freedom of peaceful manifestation ». An implicit response to those who, especially by the far -right press, launch accusations, then bounced by social networks, of a contiguity between Hamas and the activists who are traveling to the Strip. When Crosetto, after declaring that “any event, if he respects the right, must be protected and cannot be suffocated with violence”, He decides to send a second Italian military ship, “the alpine that has other skills if they ever served”, in defense of the protesters, recognizes, in fact, that these are continuing to act in compliance with legality.
A move, the Italian one, which puts the Israeli government in difficulty forced to find an agreement to avoid a casus beautiful. “This does not mean being against Israel, but defending principles that apply to everyone: respect for international law and freedom of navigation”, said, within the same information the deputy of Forza Italia Bagnasco defining “very serious the episode” which has seen “a flotilla consisting of over fifty boats, with civilians, parliamentarians, MEPs and international activists on board, affected by drones and sound bombs in international waters and bombs Near Crete “.
With sending, on September 24, Of the Fasan Multural Freate, which was north north of Crete as part of the Safe Sea Mission, and the Alpine, both equipped with sophisticated defense systems, attacks both from the sky and the under the sea level should be averted. And the rescue ensured. A decision of which the Minister, who continues to reiterate the goal of enforcing international law, has informed the Israeli military employee in Italy, our ambassador and the military employee to Tel Aviv and the crisis unit of the Farnesina. Meanwhile, the flotilla, albeit with some damaged ship, but no injuries, continues navigation. The situation will be complicated when the international waters will leave, Minister Crosetto explained, and we will enter “the waters of another state, which considers this operation of the flotilla almost a hostile act”. The defense owner avoided calling them “Israeli waters” since those in front of Gaza are not recognized internationally, while evidently referring to the state of Israel.
From the ground comes the support of the Catholic world, from Caritas to CNCA to the Catholic action which, in reiterating that “to Gaza it is urgent to dare peace”, also says that “looks with hope at the Global Sumud Flotilla. A warning for our consciences ».
The humanitarian mission that started from below, even if many political forces try to targate it politically to their advantage, for the ACI “is a symbol of civil commitment that questions each of us, calling us to open a passage first within our anesthetized consciences. It is an invitation not to reduce peace to a vague aspiration, but to live it as a personal and political commitment, as a daily construction ».
Hoping that “his company can open – in addition to the maritime corridor – a corridor in our consciences”, the presidency of the Catholic action adds an applause also for the choice of the name: «Global, because solidarity knows no boundaries; Flotilla, because the sea becomes common path, collective breath; Sumud, Arabic term that means “resilience”, “firmness”, and which tells the deep soul of this gesture. Not a simple expedition of aid, but the testimony of a tenacity that keeps those who navigate together, who supports and who awaitswith the awareness that peace cannot be lived if you remain in peace: It is necessary, to put it with Don Primo Mazzolari, to be men and women of peace ».
