Italy PM says Gaza humanitarian situation ever more 'unjustifiable'

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday the humanitarian situation in Gaza was ever more dramatic and unjustifiable , stressing sh...

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday the humanitarian situation in Gaza was "ever more dramatic and unjustifiable", stressing she had repeatedly urged Israel to find a way to end the conflict.

"It is a request that I renew today in the face of a humanitarian situation in Gaza that I have no difficulty in defining as increasingly dramatic and unjustifiable," Meloni told parliament.

Meloni's comments came a day after French President Emmanuel Macron called "shameful" the behaviour of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.

In questions from parliament, she was pressed by an MP to condemn Netanyahu's actions, and asked whether she would introduce sanctions against Israel or recall its ambassador.

Meloni said her conversations in recent months with Netanyahu were "often difficult conversations in which I always referred to the urgency of finding a way to end the hostilities, the need to respect international law, international humanitarian law".