Italian FM calls for ceasefire-hostage release deal: ‘Enough with the attacks’

By AFP 17 May 2025, 3:11 pm 5 Edit

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani talks to the press as he arrives for an informal meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers ahead of potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Turkey, in Antalya, on May 15, 2025. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

ROME, Italy — Italy’s government ups its exhortations to Israel to stop deadly military strikes in Gaza, with Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani saying: “Enough with the attacks.”

“We no longer want to see the Palestinian people suffer,” Tajani says during a trip to Sicily, in remarks relayed by his spokesman.

“Let’s come to a ceasefire, let’s free the hostages, but let’s leave people who are victims of Hamas alone,” he is cited as saying.