CAIRO (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned on Saturday that the worldwide neighborhood should keep away from an escalation within the struggle between Israel and Hamas and set a roadmap in the direction of the 2 states resolution.
Meloni made the remarks whereas talking in Egypt on the Cairo worldwide summit for peace within the Center East as Israel prepares a floor assault on Gaza following Hamas assault that killed 1,400 folks.
“Though our beginning factors are far aside, our pursuits overlap completely: that what is occurring in Gaza doesn’t change into a a lot wider battle, a non secular struggle, a conflict of civilisations,” Meloni mentioned talking in Italian.
“I’ve the impression that this was the true purpose of the Hamas assault, to not defend the rights of the Palestinian folks, however an assault that might create an unbridgeable hole between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which means that the goal is all of us, and we can not fall into this lure, which might be very silly.”
The Italian premier met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo earlier than travelling to Tel Aviv to fulfill Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meloni and Abbas mentioned the necessity to work onerous for a de-escalation of the Israel-Hamas struggle and for a two-state resolution, the Italian chief informed journalists, referring to the concept of building two separate and impartial states, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians.
“I hope that there’s a accountability on the a part of entire worldwide neighborhood, and it appears to me that there’s, to hurry up this course of and supply a structural resolution to the battle,” Meloni mentioned.
She burdened {that a} two-state resolution will need to have a transparent timeframe.
(Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni; Modifying by Tomasz Janowski and Alison Williams)