The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, called for the "necessity to stop the cycle of violence" in Palestine, affirming that "Italy supports the solution of two peoples and two states".
According to the Italian news agency (AKI), President Mattarella wrote that "the military operations launched by the Israeli forces in Gaza have caused unbearable human and material destruction, and at the same time, the erosion of the territories belonging to the Palestinian National Authority is unacceptable".
