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Saturday, October 14, 2023
Italy says it believes 3 of its citizens being held by Hamas in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleItaly’s foreign minister says the country is continuing its efforts to free Italian nationals who are among those believed to be held hostage by Hamas following the militant group’s attack on southern Israel last Saturday.
“We’ve done and we’ll do anything possible to free hostages, three of whom are Italian,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says at an event in Rome.
Tajani, who visited Israel on Friday, said he met there with the families of the three people who are believed held hostage — a couple and a boy.
“We hope that Israel’s reaction will be proportioned and only hit the sites where Hamas terrorists are hiding or hiding weapons,” Tajani says, adding he hopes hostages could be freed through the creation of humanitarian corridors.
The Times of Israel Community.