Children in need of treatment will be taken to Italy in the next few days by planes and ships, the country’s defense minister Guido Crosetto said.
Italy plans to provide hospital care for 100 children injured in Gaza.
Palestinian children will be transported to Italy to receive the treatment they need in an operation that will begin in the next few days, the country’s defense minister Guido Crosetto said according to the Reuters news agency.
The first 30 children will be flown to Italy from Egypt, where they have arrived as refugees from Gaza.
Another 30 children and their families will come from Egypt by sea to Italy at the end of January. The warship Vulcano leaves to transport patients from the port city of el-Arish in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
Defense Minister Crosetto did not specify how or when the remaining 40 children will be evacuated to Italy.
Response to a humanitarian crisis
According to the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 25,000 people have been killed in the Israeli attack.
Israel began military operations in the Gaza Strip after the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel in October, killing at least 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages.
Defense Minister Crosetto characterized Italy’s decision to take the children into care as more of a moral than a political decision.
– One cannot be indifferent in the face of a serious humanitarian crisis, Crosetto said in his statement.
According to the Minister of Defense, Palestinian children arriving in Italy will be cared for in Bologna, Florence, Genoa and the capital, Rome.
Source: Reuters